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Test 3 · ★ · Queues, taking turns and interrupting

A mum with a crying baby is behind you at the chemist's. What is a kind choice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: kind choice

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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 mum with a crying baby is behind you at the chemist's.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 you	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 baby	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 baby	det
5	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 baby	amod
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mum	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 you	cop
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 chemist	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chemist	det
12	chemist	chemist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 you	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 chemist	case
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 you	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a mum with a crying baby					behind you	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.

Sentence 2: What is a kind choice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 choice	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 choice	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 choice	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 choice	amod
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 choice	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ignore her completely and carry on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	completely	completely	ADV	_	1 Ignore	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 carry	cc
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 carry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	her = she				completely property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	carry on	infinitive	you not said here						vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Tell her the baby is too loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loud	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 loud	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	present	the baby					loud property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Offer to let her go ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 let	mark
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Offer	xcomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	her = she					tree rules
3	go	infinitive	her = she not said here					ahead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Leave the queue in annoyance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queue	det
3	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 annoyance	case
5	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the queue		annoyance			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent queue=Theme in annoyance=Location

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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