Test 18 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

kids say the new boy won't shake hands cos he's "weird". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids, new boy, boy · What happens: say, not shake, be, pass on · To what, where: hands, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shake	nsubj
6	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 shake	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 shake	advmod
8	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shake	obj
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 weird	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 weird	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 weird	cop
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 weird	punct
14	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shake	advcl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 weird	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shake	punct
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 shake	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pass	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	17 pass	compound:prt
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not shake	future	the new boy	hands		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	boy		weird property	tree rules
4	pass on	infinitive	the new boy not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Yes, and make him shake hands next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 make	cc
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shake	obj
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shake	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	shake	infinitive	him = he not said here	hands			time		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 2

Yes, but only tell it as a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 joke	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 joke	det
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		it			as a joke	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 3

Yes, everyone should know he is rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 know	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rude	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rude	cop
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	should	everyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	he					rude property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, some people do not shake hands, respect it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 shake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shake	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shake	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 shake	advmod
7	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shake	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 respect	punct
10	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shake	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 respect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shake	present · do-support	some people	hands					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	respect	infinitive	some people not said here	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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