Test 14 · ★ · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table

wanna tell my joke while eating, mouth full

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, my · What happens: tell, eat, joke · To what, where: joke, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 tell	dep
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 joke	nmod:poss
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tell	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mouth	punct
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mouth	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	my joke	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient
2	eat	gerund	you not said here	mouth	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
3	joke		my		nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Swallow first, talking with food in your mouth can make you choke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Swallow	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 talking	punct
4	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 make	csubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouth	nmod:poss
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	obl
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Swallow	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swallow	imperative	you not said here			first property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	gerund			your mouth	with food	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with food=Co-Agent
3	make	can	talking	you			tree rules
4	choke	infinitive	you not said here				vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Laugh first and swallow after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Laugh	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 swallow	cc
4	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
5	after	after	ADP	_	4 swallow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					first property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swallow after	infinitive	you not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Say it fast before you swallow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Say	obj
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Say	advmod
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 swallow	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 swallow	nsubj
6	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it				fast property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	swallow	present	you						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Say it, but chew with your mouth shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Say	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chew	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 chew	cc
5	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chew	obl
9	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	chew	present						with your mouth; shut property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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