Exam question 1 · More greetings and making introductions

Identify the customary order of names when a younger person is introduced to an older person.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, introduce, order · To what, where: customary order, younger person, names

This is exam question 1 of lesson 125 «More greetings and making introductions» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 order	det
3	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 order	compound
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 names	case
6	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 order	nmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 introduced	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 introduced	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 introduced	aux:pass
12	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 person	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
15	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 person	amod
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 introduced	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the customary order of names		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	introduce	present · passive		a younger person	to a older person	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to person=Co-Patient
3	order			names		nom order «communication transitive»: of=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

The names are stated in alphabetical order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stated	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stated	aux:pass
4	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
6	alphabetical	alphabetical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 order	amod
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present · passive		the names		alphabetical order			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The younger person's name is stated first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 person	case
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stated	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stated	aux:pass
7	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 stated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present · passive		the younger person's name				first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	name		the younger person						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Only the younger person's name is stated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 name	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 person	det
3	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 person	amod
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 person	case
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stated	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stated	aux:pass
8	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present · passive		the younger person's name					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	name		the younger person						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The older person's name is stated first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 person	case
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stated	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stated	aux:pass
7	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 stated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present · passive		the older person's name				first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	name		the older person						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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