Test 4 · ★ · Queues, taking turns and interrupting

Why do people say queuing is very important in Britain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people, queuing · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Britain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	queuing	queuing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 important	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 important	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 important	advmod
8	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Britain	case
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 important	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	people						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	queuing			Britain		important 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

Only tourists queue there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 tourists	advmod
2	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 queue	nsubj
3	queue	queue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 queue	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	queue	present	tourists			there			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

British people value fair queuing highly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 value	nsubj
3	value	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 queuing	amod
5	queuing	queuing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 value	obj
6	highly	highly	ADV	_	3 value	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	value	present	British people	fair queuing				highly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queuing=Stimulus

Option 3

British shops are very small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shops	amod
2	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 small	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	British shops					small property	tree rules

Option 4

Queuing is the law in all British shops and cafés

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Queuing	queuing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 law	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 law	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 law	det
4	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 shops	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 shops	det
7	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shops	amod
8	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 law	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cafés	cc
10	cafés	café	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shops	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Queuing	the law		all British shops and cafés			tree rules

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