Test 10 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

we lost 4-0, do we still shake hands

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: lose, shake · To what, where: 4-0, hands

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 124 «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	4-0	4-0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 lost	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shake	punct
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shake	aux
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 shake	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 shake	advmod
8	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	parataxis
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	we	4-0					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4-0=Eventuality
2	shake	present · do-support	we	hands			still		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only shake the referee's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 shake	advmod
2	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 referee	det
4	referee	referee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 referee	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	the referee's hand					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 2

No, walk off to show you're upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 walk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 walk	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 walk	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 upset	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 upset	cop
9	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	walk off	imperative	you not said here		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	you	upset property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, shake hands and say good game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 shake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shake	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 shake	conj
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 game	amod
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	hands					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	good game					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent game=Topic

Option 4

No, only winners shake hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 winners	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 winners	advmod
4	winners	winner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shake	nsubj
5	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	present	winners	hands					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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