Test 6 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world
Your family visits Japan and a shopkeeper bows as you leave. Which reply fits?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: family, shopkeeper, you, reply · What happens: visit, bow, leave, fit · To what, where: Japan
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Your family visits Japan and a shopkeeper bows as you leave.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 visits | nsubj |
| 3 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 visits | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bows | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shopkeeper | det |
| 7 | shopkeeper | shopkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bows | nsubj |
| 8 | bows | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 visits | conj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 leave | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 leave | nsubj |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bows | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 visits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present | Your family | Japan | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent japan=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | bow | present | a shopkeeper | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Which reply fits?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fits | nsubj |
| 3 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | which reply | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
A secret handshake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 handshake | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 handshake | amod |
| 3 | handshake | handshake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A hongi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hongi | det |
| 2 | hongi | hongi | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A small bow back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bow | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bow | amod |
| 3 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 bow | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Cheek kisses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kisses | compound |
| 2 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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