Test 10 · ★★ · A guest at the table, and manners on the phone

at my mate's house, they're saying grace, do i just start

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, i · What happens: say, start · To what, where: grace, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 128 «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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	at	at	ADP	_	5 house	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 mate	case
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saying	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saying	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saying	aux
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saying	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 start	punct
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 start	aux
13	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 start	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 start	advmod
15	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saying	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	they	grace		my mate's house			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic
2	start	present · do-support	i						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

Eat the bread only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bread	det
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	1 Eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	the bread					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

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

Wait quietly until they finish

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	_	5 finish	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 finish	nsubj
5	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	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	they						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Talk to your friend meanwhile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 friend	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talk	obl
5	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	1 Talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here					to your friend; meanwhile property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to friend=Co-Agent

Option 4

Start eating, you don't have to join

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Start	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Start	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 join	mark
9	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	start	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 have	present · do-support	you	tree rules
4	join	to-infinitive	you not said here	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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