Test 3 · ★★ · A guest at the table, and manners on the phone
Your Muslim friend Amir is fasting and you have crisps at break. What is a kind choice?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Muslim friend, you · What happens: fast, have, be · To what, where: crisps, break, kind choice
This is test 3 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Your Muslim friend Amir is fasting and you have crisps at break.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fasting | nsubj |
| 4 | Amir | Amir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | appos |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fasting | aux |
| 6 | fasting | fast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fasting | conj |
| 10 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 break | case |
| 12 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fasting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fast | present · progressive | Your Muslim friend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | you | crisps | break | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=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.
Sentence 2: What is a kind choice?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 choice | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 choice | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 choice | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 choice | amod |
| 5 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 choice | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a kind choice | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Ask if he minds, or eat a little apart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 minds | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 minds | nsubj |
| 4 | minds | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eat | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 eat | cc |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eat | obj |
| 10 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 7 eat | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mind a condition, not said to happen | present | he | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | eat | infinitive | you not said here | a little | apart property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
Option 2
Offer him crisps again and again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 crisps | nsubj |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Offer | obj |
| 3 | crisps | crisp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 crisps | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 again | cc |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 again | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | infinitive | him = he | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 2 | crisp | present | again | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Tell him fasting is not allowed at school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | fasting | fasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 allowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 allowed | advmod |
| 6 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 school | case |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 allowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not allow | present · passive | fasting | school | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
Option 4
Tease him that he looks hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tease | tease | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tease | obj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 looks | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tease | advcl |
| 6 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looks | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | present | he | hungry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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