Test 16 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

did u hear Leo laughed with a mouthful of sausage at lunch n went proper blue, they say the ambulance came n everything

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, Leo, lunch n, they, ambulance · What happens: hear, laugh, go, say, come · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	nsubj
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 mouthful	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mouthful	det
8	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 sausage	case
10	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouthful	nmod
11	at	at	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
12	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 n	compound
13	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	advcl
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blue	amod
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 went	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 say	nsubj
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ambulance	det
21	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 say	ccomp
23	n	n	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 everything	amod
24	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 came	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	laugh	past	Leo		with a mouthful of sausage	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	lunch n		blue property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	they			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	past	the ambulance	everything		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location everything=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 · ✓ the right answer

Don't laugh or talk with food in; the ambulance part may be exaggerated

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 laugh	advmod
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 talk	cc
5	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	5 talk	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 exaggerated	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 part	det
11	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 part	compound
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 exaggerated	nsubj:pass
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 exaggerated	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 exaggerated	aux:pass
15	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 laugh	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not laugh	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	infinitive	you not said here		with food	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with food=Co-Agent
3	exaggerate	may · passive		the ambulance part		tree rules

Option 2

Ambulances come every time someone coughs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ambulances	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obj
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 coughs	nsubj
6	coughs	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Ambulances				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cough	present	someone	every time not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme

Option 3

Only sausages make people choke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 sausages	advmod
2	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	sausages	people					tree rules
2	choke	infinitive	people not said here						vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Laughing while eating is totally safe as long as you are sitting down properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 safe	csubj
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	3 eating	mark
3	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Laughing	advcl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 safe	advmod
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 sitting	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 sitting	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sitting	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	aux
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 safe	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 sitting	advmod
14	properly	properly	ADV	_	12 sitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	gerund			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Laughing	safe, totally property	tree rules
4	sit down	present · progressive	you	down, long, properly property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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