Test 13 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

mouth full of crisps, telling a joke rn

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell · To what, where: joke rn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 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	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 mouth	amod
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 crisps	case
4	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 full	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 telling	punct
6	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 mouth	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rn	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rn	compound
9	rn	rn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		a joke rn					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rn=Recipient

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

Laugh while chewing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	3 chewing	mark
3	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Laugh	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chew	gerund	you not said here						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Swallow first, you can choke if you laugh with food in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Swallow	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 choke	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 choke	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 choke	aux
6	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Swallow	conj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 laugh	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 laugh	nsubj
9	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 choke	advcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laugh	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	9 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	swallow	imperative	you not said here	first property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	choke	can	you		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	laugh a condition, not said to happen	present	you	with food	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Stuff in more first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 more	case
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Stuff	nmod
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 more	advmod

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

Option 4

Talk fast, it's fine as long as you don't laugh too hard

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Talk	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fine	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	expl
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Talk	conj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fine	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 laugh	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 laugh	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 laugh	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 laugh	advmod
13	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fine	advcl
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 hard	advmod
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 laugh	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here	fast property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you not said here	fine, long property	tree rules
3	not laugh	present · do-support	you	hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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