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Test 6 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

A girl in Sydney wipes her mouth on her sleeve at a restaurant. What would be better?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: wipe, be · To what, where: mouth, sleeve

This is test 6 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: A girl in Sydney wipes her mouth on her sleeve at a restaurant.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wipes	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sydney	case
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	wipes	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wipes	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 sleeve	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sleeve	nmod:poss
10	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wipes	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 restaurant	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 restaurant	det
13	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wipes	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wipes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	present	a girl in Sydney	girl's mouth		girl's sleeve		at a restaurant	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme on sleeve=Trajectory

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 would be better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 better	obl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 better	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Licking her lips clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lips	nmod:poss
3	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Licking	obj
4	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Licking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	gerund		her lips				clean property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Using a napkin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 napkin	det
3	napkin	napkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		a napkin					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent napkin=Patient

Option 3

Using the tablecloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tablecloth	det
3	tablecloth	tablecloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		the tablecloth					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablecloth=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Waiting until she gets home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 gets	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Waiting	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 gets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	she					home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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