Test 8 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

Why is it good to learn greetings like "Kia ora" or "What's the craic?"

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kia · What happens: be, learn · To what, where: greetings, craic · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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=Int	4 good	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 good	expl
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 learn	mark
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	csubj
7	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 Kia	case
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Kia	punct
10	Kia	Kia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 greetings	nmod
11	ora	ora	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Kia	flat
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 ora	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 craic	cc
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 craic	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 craic	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 craic	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 craic	det
18	craic	craic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Kia	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 craic	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 craic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			good property	tree rules
2	learn	to-infinitive		greetings	like Kia or the craic	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	Kia or the craic	the craic		tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Knowing local customs helps you understand and respect people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 helps	csubj
2	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 customs	amod
3	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Knowing	obj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 helps	obj
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helps	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 respect	cc
8	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 understand	conj
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 respect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	gerund		local customs	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer custom=Stimulus
2	help	present	Knowing	you	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	understand	infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	respect	infinitive	you not said here	people	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because you must use them in every country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 use	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 use	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	must	you	them = they		every country			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Because they are secret passwords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 passwords	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 passwords	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 passwords	cop
4	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 passwords	amod
5	passwords	password	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	secret passwords					tree rules

Option 4

Because the English words we use at home are not polite enough there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	11 polite	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
3	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 polite	nsubj
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 words	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obl
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 polite	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 polite	advmod
11	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 polite	advmod
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 polite	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	we	the English words not said here		home			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	not is	present	the English words			there		enough, polite property	tree rules

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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