Test 13 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

gonna crush his hand when we shake, show who's boss

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, we · What happens: crush, shake, show, be · To what, where: hand, boss · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 crush	dep
2	crush	crush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crush	obj
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 shake	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 shake	nsubj
7	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 crush	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 show	punct
9	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shake	conj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 boss	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 boss	cop
12	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	crush	imperative	you not said here	his hand	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	shake	present	we		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	show	present	we not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		boss	tree rules

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

Pull him towards you hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pull	obj
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Pull	obl
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Pull	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	him = he				towards you; hard property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme towards you=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Shake firmly but gently, crushing hurts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	1 Shake	advmod
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 gently	cc
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Shake	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crushing	punct
6	crushing	crush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Shake	advcl
7	hurts	hurt	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here					firmly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	crush	gerund	you not said here	hurts					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Squeeze as hard as you can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 hard	advmod
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Squeeze	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 can	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 can	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here					hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Shake for a full minute so he knows you mean it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 minute	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 minute	det
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 minute	amod
5	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shake	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 knows	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knows	nsubj
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shake	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 mean	nsubj
10	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 knows	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here		minute	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	know	present	he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	mean	present	you	it		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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