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Test 4 · ★ · Respect for first peoples, older people and people with di…

At a café, the waiter asks a wheelchair user's friend «What would she like?». What would have been better?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: waiter, friend · What happens: ask, like, be · To what, where: friend, café · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 227 «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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: At a café, the waiter asks a wheelchair user's friend «What would she like?».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 café	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 café	det
3	café	café	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 café	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waiter	det
6	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	nsubj
7	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 user	det
9	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 user	compound
10	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 friend	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 user	case
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asks	obj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 like	obj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 like	aux
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
17	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asks	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the waiter		a wheelchair user's friend	a café			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	friend						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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 would have been better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 better	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 What	amod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Choosing something for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Choosing	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Choosing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	gerund		something				for her = she	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent something=Theme for she=Beneficiary

Option 2

Bringing the menu to the friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 menu	det
3	menu	menu	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bringing	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 friend	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bringing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	gerund		the menu	the friend				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent menu=Theme to friend=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Asking the friend again, more loudly and slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	1 Asking	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 loudly	punct
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 loudly	advmod
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Asking	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slowly	cc
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 loudly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			the friend		again	loudly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Asking the wheelchair user herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 user	det
3	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 user	compound
4	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		the wheelchair user				herself = she obl	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent user=Recipient

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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