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Test 3 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

At a family dinner in Canada, everyone has food except Grandpa. What do you do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, you · What happens: have, do · To what, where: food, family dinner

This is test 3 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

Sentence 1: At a family dinner in Canada, everyone has food except Grandpa.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 dinner	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dinner	det
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dinner	compound
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Canada	case
6	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dinner	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dinner	punct
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj
11	except	except	ADP	_	12 Grandpa	case
12	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 food	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	everyone	food		a family dinner in Canada		except Grandpa	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: What do you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Eat half and then wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 Eat	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 wait	advmod
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	half					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here				then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Ask Grandpa to hurry up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hurry	mark
4	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 hurry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		Grandpa				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent grandpa=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hurry up not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wait until Grandpa is served too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 served	mark
3	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 served	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 served	aux:pass
5	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	advcl
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 served	advmod

#	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	serve	present · passive		Grandpa					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

Option 4

Start, because your food is ready

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ready	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 ready	mark
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ready	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ready	cop
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Start	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	present	your food					ready property	tree rules

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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