Exam question 4 · More greetings and making introductions

Select the response consistent with established courtesy towards a person who uses a wheelchair during a lengthy conversation.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: select, establish, use · To what, where: response, wheelchair

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 courtesy	case
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 courtesy	amod
7	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	10 person	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 uses	nsubj
12	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 person	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wheelchair	det
14	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uses	obj
15	during	during	ADP	_	18 conversation	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 conversation	det
17	lengthy	lengthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 conversation	amod
18	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uses	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		towards a person	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	use	present	a person	a wheelchair	during a lengthy conversation		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelchair=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

Raise one's voice so as to be clearly heard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 one	case
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Raise	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	10 heard	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 heard	mark
7	to	to	PART	_	10 heard	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	aux:pass
9	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	10 heard	advmod
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Raise	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	imperative	you not said here	one's voice					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
2	hear	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here					clearly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Greet them as anyone, and sit at their eye level

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Greet	obj
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 anyone	case
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Greet	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sit	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sit	cc
7	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Greet	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 level	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 level	nmod:poss
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 level	compound
11	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	imperative	you not said here		them = they			as anyone	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme as anyone=Attribute
2	sit	present	you not said here			their eye level			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at level=Location

Option 3

Avoid greeting them so as not to cause trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	greeting	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Avoid	xcomp
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 greeting	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 cause	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 cause	mark
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cause	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cause	mark
8	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Avoid	advcl
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	avoid	imperative	you not said here			vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	greet speech: greet	gerund	you not said here		them = they	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	not cause	to-infinitive	you not said here	trouble		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Speak only to the person pushing the wheelchair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 person	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 person	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speak	obj
6	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 person	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wheelchair	det
8	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the person					tree rules
2	push	gerund	the person not said here	the wheelchair					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelchair=Theme

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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