Test 5 · ★ · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table
Your friend's mum is leaving after picking her up from your house. What is polite?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: leave, pick up, be · To what, where: mum, house
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Your friend's mum is leaving after picking her up from your house.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mum | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 friend | case |
| 4 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaving | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 leaving | aux |
| 6 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 picking | mark |
| 8 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 leaving | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 picking | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 picking | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 picking | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaving | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · progressive | Your friend's mum | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | Your friend's mum not said here | mum | your house | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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 is polite?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 polite | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 polite | cop |
| 3 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 polite | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | polite property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Walking them to the door and saying goodbye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Walking | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saying | cc |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Walking | conj |
| 8 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | them = they | the door | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme to door=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | goodbye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |
Option 2
Closing the door before they reach their car
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Closing | obj |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 reach | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reach | nsubj |
| 6 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Closing | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 car | nmod:poss |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reach | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | gerund | the door | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||||
| 2 | reach | present | they | their car | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
Option 3
Shouting "Bye" from upstairs so they hear you go
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 go | csubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bye | punct |
| 3 | Bye | bye | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Shouting | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bye | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 upstairs | case |
| 6 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 1 Shouting | obl |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 hear | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hear | nsubj |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shouting | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 hear | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | gerund | Bye | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bye=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hear | present | they | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | present | Shouting | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Saying nothing at all, since they came for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | csubj |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 nothing | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | nothing | all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past | they | for her = she | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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