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Test 2 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

A girl in Melbourne gives a handshake so hard that her uncle winces. What should she change?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: give, wince, change · To what, where: handshake

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl in Melbourne gives a handshake so hard that her uncle winces.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Melbourne	case
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 handshake	det
7	handshake	handshake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 hard	advmod
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 gives	advmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 winces	mark
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 winces	nmod:poss
12	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 winces	compound
13	winces	wince	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hard	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	a girl in Melbourne	a handshake				hard property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handshake=Theme
2	wince		girl						nom wince «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

Sentence 2: What should she change?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 change	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 change	nsubj
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	should	girl						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

The options

Option 1

Shake with both hands at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 hands	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hands	det
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shake	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Shake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here					with both hands	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at once=Stimulus

Option 2

Stop shaking hands for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shaking	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 ever	case
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 shaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	shake	gerund	you not said here	hands					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 3

Make her hand completely floppy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	1 Make	obj
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	5 floppy	advmod
5	floppy	floppy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	her hand				floppy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hand=Product

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

Grip firmly but not hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	1 Grip	advmod
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 hard	cc
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Grip	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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