Test 15 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table
mate's choking and can't talk or cough
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: not talk, cough, choke
This is test 15 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 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 choking | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 mate | case |
| 3 | choking | choking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 talk | cc |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 talk | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 talk | advmod |
| 7 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 choking | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 cough | cc |
| 9 | cough | cough | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 talk | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not talk | can | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | cough | infinitive | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | choke | mate | nom choking «state transitive»: poss=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
Wait to see if it passes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 see | mark |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 passes | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 passes | nsubj |
| 6 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | 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 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | pass a condition, not said to happen | present | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Give him a drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 drink | det |
| 4 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a drink | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drink=Theme |
Option 3
Make him lie down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | xcomp |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 lie | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie down | infinitive | him = he not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Get an adult now, they do back blows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adult | det |
| 3 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Get | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blows | compound |
| 9 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | a adult | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do | present | they | back blows | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Eventuality |
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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