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Test 1 · ★ · More greetings and making introductions

A boy in Birmingham meets his friend's grandmother, who says "As-salamu alaykum". What is a kind reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, grandmother · What happens: meet, say, be · To what, where: grandmother, kind reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 125 «More greetings and making introductions» 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: A boy in Birmingham meets his friend's grandmother, who says "As-salamu alaykum".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meets	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Birmingham	case
4	Birmingham	Birmingham	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grandmother	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 friend	case
9	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meets	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grandmother	acl:relcl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 alaykum	punct
14	As	as	ADP	_	17 alaykum	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 As	punct
16	salamu	salamu	X	_	17 alaykum	compound
17	alaykum	alaykum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	ccomp
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 alaykum	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 meets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	a boy in Birmingham	boy's friend's grandmother					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	boy's friend's grandmother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: What is a kind reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reply	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reply	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reply	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

"Goodbye, see you again tomorrow"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
2	Goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Goodbye	punct
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
7	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl:unmarked
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	imperative	you not said here	you			again; tomorrow		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2

"Kia ora, good night"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Kia	punct
2	Kia	Kia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	ora	ora	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Kia	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kia	appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A silent stare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stare	det
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stare	amod
3	stare	stare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"Wa alaykum as-salam", or hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 alaykum	punct
2	Wa	Wa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 alaykum	compound
3	alaykum	alaykum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 salam	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 as	punct
6	salam	salam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 alaykum	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 alaykum	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hello	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 hello	cc
10	hello	hello	INTJ	_	3 alaykum	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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