Test 5 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

Why might a stranger's wave not be for you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wave, stranger · What happens: not be, wave

This is test 5 · ★ 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=Rel	root	root
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 you	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wave	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 stranger	case
6	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 you	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 you	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 you	cop
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Why	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	might	a stranger's wave					for you	tree rules
2	wave		a stranger						nom wave «event transitive»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is often meant for someone behind you

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 meant	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 meant	aux:pass
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 meant	advmod
4	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 someone	case
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 meant	obl
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 someone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · passive		It				for someone; often property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for someone=Attribute

Option 2

Because only children wave at each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 wave	mark
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 children	advmod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wave	nsubj
4	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 wave	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	present	children			each			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Location

Option 3

Because waving is only for goodbyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	2 waving	case
2	waving	waving	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goodbyes	obl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 goodbyes	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 goodbyes	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 goodbyes	case
6	goodbyes	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for goodbyes; because waving	tree rules

Option 4

Because strangers never wave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 wave	mark
2	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wave	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 wave	advmod
4	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wave	present	strangers						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: 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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