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Test 1 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

A boy in Glasgow pushes past a lady on the bus without a word and she almost falls. What should he have done?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, Glasgow · What happens: push, fall, do

This is test 1 of lesson 127 «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» 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 Glasgow pushes past a lady on the bus without a word and she almost falls.

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 pushes	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Glasgow	case
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	past	past	ADP	_	8 lady	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bus	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bus	det
11	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obl
12	without	without	ADP	_	14 word	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 word	det
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushes	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 falls	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 falls	nsubj
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 falls	advmod
18	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pushes	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pushes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	a boy in Glasgow					past a lady; without a word; on the bus	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on bus=Theme
2	fall	present	Glasgow					almost property	vn occur-48.3 «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.

Sentence 2: What should he have done?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 done	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should · perfect	boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Pushed harder so it was quicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Pushed	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 quicker	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quicker	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quicker	cop
6	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Pushed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	participle						hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					quick property	tree rules

Option 2

Climbed over the seats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 seats	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seats	det
4	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Climbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	participle				the seats			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over seat=Trajectory

Option 3

Waited for the next bus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 bus	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bus	det
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bus	amod
5	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past						for the next bus	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Said "Excuse me" and waited for her to move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	Said	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Excuse	nsubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Excuse	punct
3	Excuse	excuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 Excuse	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Excuse	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 waited	cc
7	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Excuse	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 waited	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 move	mark
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 waited	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	excuse in a quote	infinitive	Said	me					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	wait	past	Said not said here					for Said	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	move	to-infinitive	Said not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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