Test 16 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

did u hear Finn crushed a girl's hand so hard shaking it "her fingers snapped". what's probs exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, Finn, fingers · What happens: hear, crush, shake, snap, be, exaggerate · To what, where: hand, probs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crushed	nsubj
5	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 girl	case
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crushed	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 hard	advmod
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 crushed	advmod
12	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 crushed	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shaking	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 snapped	punct
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fingers	nmod:poss
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 snapped	nsubj
17	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shaking	parataxis
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 snapped	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 probs	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 probs	cop
22	probs	prob	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	parataxis
23	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 probs	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	crush	past	Finn	a girl's hand	hard property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	shake	gerund	Finn not said here	hand		tree rules
4	snap in a quote	past	Finn's fingers			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present		probs		tree rules
6	exaggerate	participle		probs not said here		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

That her hand hurt after it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 hand	det
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	nsubj
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	her hand				after it		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Snapped fingers; but squeezing hard really can hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snapped	snap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fingers	amod
2	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hurt	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 hurt	cc
5	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 hurt	csubj
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 squeezing	xcomp
7	really	really	ADV	_	5 squeezing	advmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fingers	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	snap	participle				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	squeeze	gerund			hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	hurt	can	squeezing	Snapped fingers not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That the teacher asked him to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 teacher	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	that teacher		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	that teacher not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

That a handshake should be firm but gentle and never squeeze hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 handshake	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 handshake	det
3	handshake	handshake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 firm	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 firm	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 firm	cop
6	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 gentle	cc
8	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 firm	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 squeeze	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 squeeze	advmod
11	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 firm	conj
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 squeeze	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	should	that handshake	firm property	tree rules
2	be		that handshake not said here		tree rules
3	not squeeze	present	that handshake not said here	hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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