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Test 7 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

An American walking past your classroom says "How's it going?" Why is a short answer right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: American walking, walking · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: short answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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: An American walking past your classroom says "How's it going?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 walking	det
2	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 walking	amod
3	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 classroom	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 classroom	nmod:poss
6	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walking	nmod
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
9	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 going	advmod
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 says	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	a American walking past your classroom						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	walking						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: Why is a short answer right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 answer	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	5 answer	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a short answer				right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because Americans do not like long answers about anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	2 Americans	case
2	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 like	obl
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 answers	amod
7	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 like	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 answers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support		long answers				because Americans; about anything	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is a greeting, not a real question

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 greeting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greeting	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 greeting	det
4	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 question	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 question	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 question	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 question	amod
9	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greeting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a greeting and a real question					tree rules

Option 3

Because long answers are only for the phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	8 phone	mark
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answers	amod
3	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 phone	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 phone	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 phone	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 phone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 phone	det
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	long answers					for the phone	tree rules

Option 4

Because you must never talk to Americans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 talk	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Americans	case
7	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	must	you		Americans				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to american=Co-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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