Test 7 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

Why do we take a fair share from a dish everyone eats from?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, everyone · What happens: take, eat · To what, where: fair share, dish

This is test 7 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	4 take	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 share	det
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 share	amod
7	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 dish	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dish	det
10	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 eats	nsubj
12	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dish	acl:relcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	12 eats	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · do-support	we	a fair share		a dish			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent share=Theme from dish=Initial_Location
2	eat	present	everyone	a dish not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=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.

The options

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

So that everyone has enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 has	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 has	mark
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	everyone	enough					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient

Option 2

Because big portions are unhealthy for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 unhealthy	mark
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 portions	amod
3	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unhealthy	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unhealthy	cop
5	unhealthy	unhealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 unhealthy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	big portions					for everyone; unhealthy property	tree rules

Option 3

Because the dish will break if it is too empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 break	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dish	det
3	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 break	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 break	aux
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 empty	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 empty	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 empty	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 empty	advmod
10	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 break	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	future	the dish						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	dish					empty property	tree rules

Option 4

Because the cook counts each piece

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 counts	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counts	nsubj
4	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 piece	det
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	the cook	each piece					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme

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