Test 3 · ★ · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table

Which is true about the hongi?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 hongi	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hongi	det
6	hongi	hongi	X	Foreign=Yes	3 true	parataxis
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

It is a greeting used in Canada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 greeting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greeting	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 greeting	det
4	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 greeting	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Canada	case
7	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a greeting					tree rules
2	use	participle		a greeting not said here		Canada			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is a Maori greeting of shared breath, done when invited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 greeting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 greeting	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 greeting	det
4	Maori	maori	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 greeting	amod
5	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 breath	case
7	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 breath	amod
8	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 greeting	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 greeting	parataxis
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 invited	advmod
12	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 done	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a Maori greeting	of shared breath	tree rules
2	share	participle				tree rules
3	do	participle				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	invite	participle				vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Anyone may do it to any stranger they meet out in the street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 do	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 stranger	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 stranger	det
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 meet	nsubj
9	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stranger	acl:relcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 meet	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 street	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 street	det
13	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	may	Anyone	it		the street		to any stranger	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	meet out	present	they	any stranger not said here					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Co-Agent

Option 4

It is a rude joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joke	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joke	amod
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rude joke					tree rules

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