Test 11 · ★ · More greetings and making introductions

introducing my lil cousin to grandad, who's name goes first

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad, introducing · What happens: introduce, be, go · To what, where: lil cousin, name

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	introducing	introduce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 goes	csubj
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cousin	nmod:poss
3	lil	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cousin	amod
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 introducing	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 grandad	case
6	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 introducing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 name	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 name	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 name	cop
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grandad	conj
11	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	introduce	gerund		my lil cousin	to grandad and name	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient to grandad=Co-Patient
2	is a	present	grandad and name	name		tree rules
3	go	present	introducing		first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Grandad's, the older person first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 person	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Grandad	case
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 person	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 person	advmod

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

Option 2

It doesn't matter at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Your cousin's, the younger first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cousin	case
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 younger	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 younger	det
6	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 cousin	amod
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 younger	advmod

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

Option 4

Your own name first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 name	amod
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 name	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name		Your						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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