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Test 9 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences

A friend refuses chicken at your house because her family does not eat meat. What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, family, you · What happens: refuse, not eat, do · To what, where: chicken, house, meat

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» 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 friend refuses chicken at your house because her family does not eat meat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refuses	nsubj
3	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refuses	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refuses	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 eat	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 family	nmod:poss
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 eat	advmod
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refuses	advcl
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 refuses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	a friend	chicken		your house			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme
2	not eat	present · do-support	friend's family	meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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 should you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Respect it and offer her something else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Respect	respect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Respect	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 offer	cc
4	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Respect	conj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 something	nmod:poss
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 offer	obj
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 something	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respect	imperative	you not said here	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	offer	infinitive	you not said here	something					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent something=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tell her she is just being fussy and should eat it

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fussy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fussy	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 fussy	advmod
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fussy	cop
7	fussy	fussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eat	cc
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	aux
10	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eat	obj

#	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	she					fussy property	tree rules
3	eat	should	you not said here	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Say that chicken is not really meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 chicken	det
3	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meat	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 meat	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 meat	advmod
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 meat	advmod
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	present	that chicken	meat					tree rules

Option 4

Make her try a bite to be polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bite	det
5	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 try	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 polite	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 polite	cop
8	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 try	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	her = she					tree rules
2	try	infinitive	her = she not said here	a bite					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Eventuality
3	is	to-infinitive	her = she not said here					polite property	tree rules

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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