Test 10 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

want the ketchup, its way over there

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: want · To what, where: ketchup

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	want	want	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ketchup	det
3	ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 want	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 want	parataxis
7	over	over	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	imperative	you not said here	the ketchup					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ketchup=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

Wait until everyone has left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 left	mark
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 left	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	present · perfect	everyone						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ask someone to pass it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Ask	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pass	mark
4	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pass	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	someone					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic
2	pass not said to happen	to-infinitive	someone not said here	it					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

Option 3

Climb onto your chair to get it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	onto	onto	ADP	_	4 chair	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 chair	nmod:poss
4	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Climb	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here			your chair			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto chair=Trajectory
2	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	chair					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Stand up and reach across the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Stand	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 reach	cc
4	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	conj
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reach	infinitive	you not said here			the table			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent across table=Path

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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