Test 15 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

why learn other ppl's customs before a trip

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: learn · To what, where: customs

This is test 15 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 learn	advmod
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ppl	amod
4	ppl	people	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	6 customs	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 ppl	case
6	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 learn	obj
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 trip	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trip	det
9	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present		other ppl's customs			before a trip		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

So you don't upset people by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 upset	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 upset	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 upset	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 upset	advmod
5	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 upset	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 mistake	case
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 upset	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not upset	present · do-support	you	people				by mistake	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

Option 2

Only the adults on the trip need to know any of that stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 adults	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 adults	det
3	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 trip	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trip	det
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adults	nmod
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 know	mark
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 need	xcomp
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 know	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 stuff	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 stuff	det
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 any	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the adults on the trip						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	the adults on the trip not said here	any					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus

Option 3

So you can laugh at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 laugh	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	aux
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	can	you					at them = they	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It doesn't matter abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	4 matter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It					abroad property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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