Test 9 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

got a cold, coach wants us all to shake hands

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coach, us · What happens: get, want, shake · To what, where: cold, us, hands

This is test 9 · ★ 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	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cold	det
3	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 got	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wants	punct
5	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wants	nsubj
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 got	conj
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wants	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 us	nmod:unmarked
9	to	to	PART	_	10 shake	mark
10	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wants	xcomp
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	past		a cold	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus
2	want	present	coach	us	tree rules
3	shake not said to happen	to-infinitive	us not said here	hands	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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

Shake hands anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shake	obj
3	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Shake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here	hands				anyway property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 2

Hide in the changing room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 room	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
4	changing	changing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 room	compound
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here			the changing room			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Explain and wave instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wave	cc
3	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Explain	conj
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 wave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wave	infinitive	you not said here					instead property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Cough into your hand and shake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cough	cough	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 hand	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cough	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shake	cc
6	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cough	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cough	imperative	you not said here			your hand			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into hand=Recipient
2	shake	infinitive	you not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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