Test 5 · ★ · Shops, restaurants and libraries
Why would a waiter in New York be unhappy if a family left no tip?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: waiter, family · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: tip
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 273 «Shops, restaurants and libraries» 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 | 9 unhappy | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 unhappy | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 waiter | det |
| 4 | waiter | waiter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 unhappy | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 York | case |
| 6 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 York | flat |
| 7 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 waiter | nmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 unhappy | cop |
| 9 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 left | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 family | det |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | nsubj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 unhappy | advcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 tip | det |
| 15 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 unhappy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | a waiter in New York | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave a condition, not said to happen | past | a family | no tip | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tips are part of the waiter's pay there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 part | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 part | cop |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pay | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 waiter | det |
| 6 | waiter | waiter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 waiter | case |
| 8 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 part | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tips | part | there | of the waiter's pay | tree rules | ||
| 2 | pay | the waiter | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Waiters get paid only by the cook in the kitchen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waiters | waiter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | aux:pass |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 cook | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 cook | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cook | det |
| 7 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 kitchen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kitchen | det |
| 10 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present · passive | the cook | Waiters | the kitchen | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
Option 3
The family has broken a law and will be fined by the police
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 law | det |
| 6 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fined | cc |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fined | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fined | aux:pass |
| 10 | fined | fine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 broken | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 police | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 police | det |
| 13 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fined | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · perfect | the family | a law | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fine | future · passive | the police | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The food would have to be paid for again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 food | det |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 paid | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 paid | aux:pass |
| 7 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 have | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 paid | compound:prt |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | the food | again | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay for | to-infinitive · passive | the food not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» |
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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