Test 8 · ★ · More greetings and making introductions
You have to introduce yourself at a new Scout group. Which is best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: have, introduce, be · To what, where: yourself, new Scout group
This is test 8 · ★ 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: You have to introduce yourself at a new Scout group.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 introduce | mark |
| 4 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | xcomp |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 introduce | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 group | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 group | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 group | amod |
| 9 | Scout | Scout | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 group | compound |
| 10 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 introduce | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | introduce | to-infinitive | You not said here | yourself | a new Scout group | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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.
Sentence 2: Which is best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 best | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 best | cop |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A story about everything you did last year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 everything | case |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 story | nmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 year | amod |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | a story about everything | year | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Your full address and phone number
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 address | nmod:poss |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 address | amod |
| 3 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 number | cc |
| 5 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 number | compound |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 address | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | Your | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"Hi, I'm Ava, I'm nine and I like camping"
The tree, 11 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ava | punct |
| 2 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 6 Ava | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ava | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Ava | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Ava | cop |
| 6 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nine | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 nine | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 nine | cop |
| 10 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Ava | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 like | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 nine | conj |
| 14 | camping | camp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 like | xcomp |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ava | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | I | Ava | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | I | nine | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | camp not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | I not said here | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
"Hi" and nothing more for the rest of the evening
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hi | punct |
| 2 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hi | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nothing | cc |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 Hi | conj |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 nothing | amod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 rest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rest | det |
| 9 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 more | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 evening | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 evening | det |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rest | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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