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Test 7 · ★ · Shops, restaurants and libraries

A boy pushes in front of an old lady in the checkout line. Why is this wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, this · What happens: push, be · To what, where: front

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy pushes in front of an old lady in the checkout line.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 lady	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lady	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lady	amod
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 line	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 line	det
12	checkout	checkout	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 line	compound
13	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lady	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pushes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	a boy			front of a old lady in the checkout line			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in front=Trajectory

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: Why is this wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wrong	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wrong	nsubj
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1

The cashier only serves boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cashier	det
2	cashier	cashier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 serves	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 serves	advmod
4	serves	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 serves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	present	the cashier	boys					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Attribute

Option 2

Old people are always slower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slower	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slower	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 slower	advmod
5	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone waits their turn; pushing in is rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 waits	nsubj
2	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 turn	nmod:poss
4	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waits	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 pushing	punct
6	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 rude	csubj
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 pushing	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rude	cop
9	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 waits	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	Everyone	their turn					tree rules
2	push in	gerund							vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	pushing					rude property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The lady had more shopping, so she should have let him go first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 shopping	amod
5	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 have	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the lady	more shopping					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shopping=Patient
2	have	should	lady						tree rules
3	let	infinitive	lady not said here	him = he					tree rules
4	go	infinitive	him = he not said here					first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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