Test 4 · ★★ · A guest at the table, and manners on the phone

Why should you not stand chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not stand · To what, where: chopsticks, bowl

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stand	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stand	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stand	advmod
5	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stand	obj
7	upright	upright	ADV	_	5 stand	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bowl	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bowl	det
10	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 rice	case
12	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bowl	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	should	you	chopsticks		a bowl of rice		upright property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chopstick=Theme in bowl=Destination

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

Because it makes the rice go cold faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 makes	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rice	det
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	the rice				fast property	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the rice not said here					cold property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Because chopsticks must always stay in your hand until the meal ends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 stay	mark
2	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stay	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 stay	advmod
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 ends	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meal	det
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ends	nsubj
12	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	must	chopsticks			your hand		always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
2	end	present	the meal						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It looks like a funeral custom in some Asian cultures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 custom	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 custom	det
5	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 custom	compound
6	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 cultures	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 cultures	det
9	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cultures	amod
10	cultures	culture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					like a funeral custom; in some Asian cultures	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in culture=Theme

Option 4

Because the rice will spill out at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 spill	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rice	det
3	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spill	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spill	aux
5	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 spill	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 spill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill out	future	the rice						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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