Test 15 · ★ · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table

Why might a family stop inviting a child who never says hello or thank you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family stop, child · What happens: invite, not say, thank · To what, where: child, hello, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 inviting	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 inviting	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stop	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	compound
5	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inviting	nsubj
6	inviting	invite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inviting	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 says	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 says	advmod
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 child	acl:relcl
12	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 thank	cc
14	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 thank	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 inviting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	invite	might	a family stop		a child	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
2	not say speech: assert	present	a child	hello		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic
3	thank speech: thank	present	a child not said here		you	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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

Children never need to greet adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 greet	mark
5	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	xcomp
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 greet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	Children						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	greet speech: greet not said to happen	to-infinitive	Children not said here		adults				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme

Option 2

Hello is old-fashioned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	5 fashioned	discourse
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fashioned	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fashioned	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 old	punct
5	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fashioned property	tree rules

Option 3

They ran out of food and could not feed another guest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 food	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feed	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 feed	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 feed	advmod
9	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ran	conj
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 guest	det
11	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	They			food			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out food=Trajectory
2	not feed	could	They not said here		another guest				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They feel he does not care about them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 care	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 care	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 care	advmod
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feel	ccomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 care	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	They						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not care	present · do-support	he					about them = they	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about they=Stimulus

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