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Test 8 · ★ · Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry

You come into a lesson ten minutes late because the bus was slow. What is the polite way in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, bus, polite way · What happens: come, be · To what, where: lesson

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 126 «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» 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 come into a lesson ten minutes late because the bus was slow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 lesson	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lesson	det
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 minutes	nummod
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 late	obl:unmarked
8	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 come	advmod
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 slow	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bus	det
11	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slow	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 slow	cop
13	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 come	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	You			a lesson		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lesson=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the bus					slow property	tree rules

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 the polite way in?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Stand at the door until the teacher notices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 door	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 notices	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 notices	nsubj
8	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			the door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
2	notice	present	the teacher						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Go home since the lesson has already started

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 started	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lesson	det
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 started	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 started	aux
7	already	already	ADV	_	8 started	advmod
8	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	present · perfect	the lesson						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Burst in and tell everyone about the late bus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Burst	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Burst	conj
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 tell	iobj
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 bus	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bus	det
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bus	amod
9	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst in	imperative	you not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		everyone			about the late bus	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient about bus=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say "Sorry I'm late" quietly and sit down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 late	punct
3	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	6 late	discourse
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 late	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 late	cop
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 late	punct
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	6 late	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sit	cc
10	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 late	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	I					late, quietly property	tree rules
3	sit down	infinitive	I not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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