Test 4 · ★ · Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things

A friendly woman on the bus asks a boy for his phone number and address. Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friendly woman · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: boy

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 225 «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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 friendly woman on the bus asks a boy for his phone number and address.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bus	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bus	det
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woman	nmod
7	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 number	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 number	nmod:poss
12	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 number	compound
13	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 address	cc
15	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 number	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a friendly woman on the bus		a boy			for boy's phone number and address	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient

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: Which is true?

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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

His safety comes before being polite, so he need not answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 safety	nmod:poss
2	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 polite	mark
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 polite	cop
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 comes	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 need	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	parataxis
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 need	advmod
12	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	present	His safety		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	gerund	His safety not said here	polite property	tree rules
3	not need	present	safety		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	answer speech: assert not said to happen	infinitive	safety not said here		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He should give her his parents' address and phone number instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parents	nmod:poss
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 address	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 parents	case
8	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 number	cc
10	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 number	compound
11	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 address	conj
12	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	should	He	his parents's address and phone number	her = she			instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient address=Theme
2	address		his parents						nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He must answer because she was friendly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answer	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	aux
3	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 friendly	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 friendly	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 friendly	cop
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answer	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	must	He						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					friendly property	tree rules

Option 4

It is rude to refuse an adult anything they ask for politely

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	3 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 refuse	mark
5	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rude	xcomp
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 anything	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anything	compound
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 refuse	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ask	nsubj
10	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 anything	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 politely	case
12	politely	politely	ADV	_	10 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		rude property	tree rules
2	refuse	to-infinitive		anything		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	present	they			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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