Test 9 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

oops burped at dinner lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: burp · To what, where: oops, dinner

This is test 9 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	oops	oop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	burped	burp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 oops	acl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 dinner	case
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burped	obl
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 oops	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burp	participle		oops not said here		dinner			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Pretend it was your brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brother	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brother	cop
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pretend	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is a	past	it	your brother					tree rules

Option 2

Say nothing and keep eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 keep	cc
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here		tree rules
3	eat	gerund	you not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Burp again to make them laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burp	burp	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Burp	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Burp	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	burp	imperative	you not said here		again	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	them = they		tree rules
3	laugh	infinitive	them = they not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say excuse me quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 excuse	obj
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 excuse	advmod

#	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	excuse	infinitive		me				quietly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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