Test 17 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

apparently Priya burps at dinner and doesn't even say excuse me, she's disgusting, tell everyone

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Priya · What happens: burp, not say, excuse, be, tell · To what, where: dinner, me, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	3 burps	advmod
2	Priya	Priya	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 burps	nsubj
3	burps	burp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dinner	case
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burps	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 say	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 say	advmod
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 burps	conj
11	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	xcomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 excuse	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 disgusting	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 disgusting	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 disgusting	cop
16	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 burps	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 disgusting	xcomp
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	burp	present	Priya			dinner	apparently property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	Priya not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	excuse	infinitive	Priya not said here	me				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	is	present	Priya				disgusting property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Priya not said here		everyone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=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

Tell everyone, she deserves it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 deserves	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 deserves	nsubj
5	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 deserves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	deserve	present	she	it					tree rules

Option 2

Burping at dinner is a crime in some countries, so she must be punished

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burping	burp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 crime	csubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 dinner	case
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burping	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 crime	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crime	det
6	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 countries	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 countries	det
9	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crime	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 punished	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 punished	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 punished	nsubj:pass
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 punished	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 punished	aux:pass
15	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 crime	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	burp	gerund			dinner	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Burping	a crime	some countries	tree rules
3	punish	must · passive		she		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't spread it; burps happen, and excuse me quietly is the polite way

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 spread	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 way	nsubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 happen	punct
6	burps	burp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 happen	nsubj
7	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 excuse	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 excuse	cc
10	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 happen	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 excuse	obj
12	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	10 excuse	advmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 way	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not spread	infinitive · do-support		it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	happen	present	burps			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	excuse	infinitive	burps not said here	me	quietly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	is a	present		the polite way		tree rules

Option 4

Excuse me is only said at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excuse	excuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Excuse	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	excuse	infinitive		me					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present · passive				school			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»

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