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Test 5 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

Your friend's mum serves a curry you have never eaten. It is safe for you. What is polite?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, you, curry · What happens: serve, not eat, be · To what, where: curry

This is test 5 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: Your friend's mum serves a curry you have never eaten.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mum	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 friend	case
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 serves	nsubj
5	serves	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 curry	det
7	curry	curry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 serves	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 eaten	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 eaten	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 eaten	advmod
11	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 curry	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 serves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	present	Your friend's mum	a curry					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curry=Attribute
2	not eat	present · perfect	you	a curry not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curry=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: It is safe for you.

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 safe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 safe	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 safe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	curry					for you; safe property	tree rules

Sentence 3: What is polite?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 polite	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 polite	cop
3	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 polite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						polite property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Try a small bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bite	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bite	amod
4	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Try	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	a small bite					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Eventuality

Option 2

Refuse it without trying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Refuse	obj
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 trying	mark
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Refuse	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	imperative	you not said here	it					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	try	gerund	you not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Say it smells strange

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smells	nsubj
3	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smells	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	smell	present	it					strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Ask for chips instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 chips	case
3	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ask	obl
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here					for chips; instead property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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