Test 11 · ★ · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table

auntie in NZ says hongi, what's that

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: auntie, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: hongi · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 221 «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» 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	auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 NZ	case
3	NZ	NZ	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 auntie	nmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hongi	hongi	X	Foreign=Yes	4 says	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 says	ccomp
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	cop
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 what	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	auntie in NZ	hongi					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hongi=Topic
2	is a	present	that						tree rules

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

A kind of fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fish	case
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A traditional Maori greeting, done when invited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 greeting	det
2	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 greeting	amod
3	Maori	maori	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greeting	compound
4	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 greeting	punct
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 invited	advmod
8	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 done	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle	a traditional Maori greeting						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	invite	participle	a traditional Maori greeting not said here						vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A dance at weddings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dance	det
2	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 weddings	case
4	weddings	wedding	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dance	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A word for goodbye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 goodbye	case
4	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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