Test 2 · ★ · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table
A girl gives a handshake so limp it feels like a fish. What impression may it give?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, handshake, impression · What happens: give, limp, feel · To what, where: handshake
This is test 2 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A girl gives a handshake so limp it feels like a fish.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 handshake | det |
| 5 | handshake | handshake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 limp | advmod |
| 7 | limp | limp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gives | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feels | nsubj |
| 9 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 limp | ccomp |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 fish | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feels | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a girl | a handshake | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handshake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | limp | infinitive | a girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | handshake | like a fish | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like fish=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.
Sentence 2: What impression may it give?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 give | obj |
| 2 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | may | impression | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
That she is very polite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 polite | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 polite | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 polite | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 polite | advmod |
| 5 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | polite property | tree rules |
Option 2
That she is in a hurry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hurry | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hurry | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurry | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hurry | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hurry | det |
| 6 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | a hurry | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
That she is unfriendly or not interested
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 unfriendly | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 unfriendly | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unfriendly | cop |
| 4 | unfriendly | unfriendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 interested | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 interested | advmod |
| 7 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 unfriendly | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | unfriendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | That not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
That she is very strong and does not need to try hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 strong | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 strong | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 strong | advmod |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 need | cc |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 need | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 need | advmod |
| 9 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 strong | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 try | mark |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 need | xcomp |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 try | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not need | present · do-support | That not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try not said to happen | to-infinitive | That not said here | hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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