Exam question 1 · A guest at the table, and manners on the phone

Identify the appropriate conduct where a host family says grace before a meal.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, host family · What happens: identify, say · To what, where: appropriate conduct, grace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 128 «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 conduct	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conduct	amod
4	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 says	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 family	det
7	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 family	compound
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 conduct	acl:relcl
10	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	obj
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 meal	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 meal	det
13	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate conduct					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a host family	grace			before a meal		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic

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

Leave the table until grace is over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 over	mark
5	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 over	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 over	cop
7	over	over	ADV	_	1 Leave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the table					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme
2	is	present	grace					over property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wait quietly until they have finished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Wait	advmod
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 finished	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 finished	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	aux
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	finish	present · perfect	they						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Ask them to say grace more quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 quickly	advmod
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		them = they				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	grace				quickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic

Option 4

Begin eating so as not to waste time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Begin	xcomp
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 eating	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 waste	mark
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 waste	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 waste	mark
7	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eating	advcl
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waste	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	begin	imperative	you not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	you not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not waste	to-infinitive	you not said here	time	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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