Test 14 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

corridor's packed, gonna shove thru

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: corridor · What happens: pack, shove

This is test 14 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	corridor	corridor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 packed	nsubj
2	's	's	PART	_	1 corridor	case
3	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shove	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 shove	dep
6	shove	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 packed	conj
7	thru	thru	PUNCT	_	3 packed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	participle	corridor						vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
2	shove	infinitive	corridor not said here						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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

Push the small kids aside, they're light and won't really get hurt

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kids	amod
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Push	obj
5	aside	aside	ADV	_	1 Push	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 light	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 light	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 light	cop
9	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Push	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hurt	cc
11	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hurt	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 hurt	advmod
13	really	really	ADV	_	15 hurt	advmod
14	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 hurt	aux:pass
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 light	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here	the small kids	aside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme
2	is	present	kids = kid		light property	tree rules
3	not hurt	future · passive	kids = kid not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 2

Shove, everyone does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shove	shove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shove	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	everyone	Shove					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shove=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Say excuse me and wait, shoving can knock someone over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 excuse	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 excuse	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knock	punct
7	shoving	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 knock	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 knock	aux
9	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 excuse	conj
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 knock	obj
11	over	over	ADV	_	9 knock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	excuse	infinitive		me	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	wait	infinitive			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shove	gerund			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	knock over	can		someone	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent someone=Patient

Option 4

Run through the gaps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 gaps	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gaps	det
4	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			the gaps			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gap=Trajectory

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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