Test 9 · ★ · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table

Why do we wait before taking the last biscuit on the plate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: wait, take · To what, where: last biscuit, plate

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 wait	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wait	nsubj
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 taking	mark
6	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wait	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 biscuit	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 biscuit	amod
9	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taking	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 plate	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plate	det
12	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taking	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present · do-support	we						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	gerund	we not said here	the last biscuit		the plate			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent biscuit=Theme on plate=Destination

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 the smallest one

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 one	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The last one is always kept for the host to eat later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	aux:pass
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 kept	advmod
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 host	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 host	det
9	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kept	advcl
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		the last one				for the host; always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive						late property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Someone else may want it, and sharing is kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 want	nsubj
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 Someone	advmod
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kind	cc
8	sharing	sharing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kind	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kind	cop
10	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 want	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	may	Someone	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	is	present	sharing					kind property	tree rules

Option 4

Last biscuits are bad luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 biscuits	amod
2	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 luck	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 luck	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 luck	amod
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Last biscuits	bad luck					tree rules

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