Exam question 1 · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table

Identify the appropriate conduct at a meal before eating begins.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, eat, begin · To what, where: appropriate conduct, meal

This is exam question 1 of lesson 221 «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» 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	at	at	ADP	_	7 meal	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 meal	det
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 begins	mark
9	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 begins	nsubj
10	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate conduct	a meal	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme
2	eat	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	present				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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One waits until all are seated and served, unless the host invites one to start

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 waits	nsubj
2	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 seated	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 seated	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seated	aux:pass
6	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 waits	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 served	cc
8	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 seated	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 invites	punct
10	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	13 invites	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 host	det
12	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 invites	nsubj
13	invites	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 waits	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 invites	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 start	mark
16	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 invites	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	present	One		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seat	present · passive		all	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
3	serve	participle			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	invite a condition, not said to happen	present	the host	one	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
5	start not said to happen	to-infinitive	one not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

One waits until the host has finished eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 waits	nsubj
2	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 finished	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 host	det
5	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finished	nsubj:pass
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 finished	aux
7	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 waits	advcl
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 finished	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	present	One		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	finish	present · perfect · passive		the host	tree rules
3	eat	gerund			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

One eats first from the shared dishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 eats	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 dishes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dishes	det
6	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dishes	amod
7	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	One			the shared dishes		first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from dish=Source
2	share	participle							tree rules

Option 4

One begins eating as soon as one's plate arrives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 begins	nsubj
2	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 arrives	csubj
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 soon	advmod
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 eating	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 plate	case
7	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 plate	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 one	case
9	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soon	obl
10	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 begins	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	present	One		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund		soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	arrive	present	eating		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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