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Test 8 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

You want to go and play while the adults are still eating. What do you say first?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, adults · What happens: want, go, play, eat, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: You want to go and play while the adults are still eating.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 play	cc
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 eating	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 adults	det
9	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eating	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 eating	aux
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 eating	advmod
12	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 play	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	You						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	infinitive	You not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	present · progressive	the adults				still		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 say first?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	you					first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

"I've finished, so bye"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bye	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 bye	advmod
7	bye	bye	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 finished	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish in a quote	present · perfect	I						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"May I please be excused?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 excused	punct
2	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 excused	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 excused	nsubj
4	please	please	INTJ	_	6 excused	discourse
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 excused	aux:pass
6	excused	excuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 excused	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 excused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	excuse in a quote	may · passive		I					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

"You eat too slowly"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	You					slowly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, they will not notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 notice	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 notice	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 notice	advmod
6	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	future	they						vn see-30.1-1 «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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