Test 2 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

Why is reaching across the table for the ketchup a bad idea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: reach · To what, where: bad idea, table

This is test 2 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 reaching	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reaching	aux
3	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reaching	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 ketchup	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ketchup	det
9	ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reaching	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 idea	det
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 idea	amod
12	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reaching	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reaching	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present · progressive		a bad idea		the table		for the ketchup	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent idea=Theme for ketchup=Beneficiary

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

Because your arm might get tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 get	mark
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arm	nmod:poss
3	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	might	your arm					tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because it makes the ketchup go cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 makes	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ketchup	det
5	ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	the ketchup					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the ketchup not said here					cold property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Because ketchup is only for adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	2 ketchup	case
2	ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adults	obl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 adults	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 adults	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for adults; because ketchup	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is rude and can knock things over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 knock	cc
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 knock	aux
6	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rude	conj
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knock	obj
8	over	over	ADV	_	6 knock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					rude property	tree rules
2	knock over	can		things					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

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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