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Test 3 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

A boy in Texas loses the final and feels angry. What shows good sportsmanship?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: lose, feel, show · To what, where: final, good sportsmanship

This is test 3 · ★ 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 boy in Texas loses the final and feels angry.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loses	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 final	det
7	final	final	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loses	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feels	cc
9	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loses	conj
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feels	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	a boy in Texas	the final					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent final=Eventuality
2	feel	present	a boy in Texas not said here					angry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 shows good sportsmanship?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sportsmanship	amod
4	sportsmanship	sportsmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present		good sportsmanship					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sportsmanship=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Shaking hands and saying "Good game" anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shaking	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 saying	cc
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Shaking	conj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 game	punct
6	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 game	amod
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 game	punct
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 saying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund		hands					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	say speech: assert	gerund		Good game				anyway property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent game=Topic

Option 2

Shaking hands but looking away angrily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shaking	obj
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 looking	cc
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Shaking	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
6	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund		hands					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	look away	gerund						angrily, away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Telling the winners that the referee cheated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winners	det
3	winners	winner	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Telling	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cheated	nsubj:pass
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 referee	det
6	referee	referee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheated	nsubj
7	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 winners	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		the winners					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent winner=Recipient
2	cheat	participle · passive		the winners					vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Refusing to shake hands until he calms down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refusing	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 shake	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 shake	mark
3	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shake	obj
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 calms	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 calms	nsubj
7	calms	calm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shake	advcl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 calms	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	gerund							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	shake	to-infinitive		hands					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	calm down	present	he						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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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