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Exam question 3 · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners

It is given that a stranger's attention, such as that of a shop assistant, is required. Select the opening consistent with courtesy.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stranger, you · What happens: give, require, attend, select · To what, where: It, attention, opening

This is exam question 3 of lesson 296 «Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is given that a stranger's attention, such as that of a shop assistant, is required.

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 required	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attention	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 stranger	case
8	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 required	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 that	case
11	as	as	ADP	_	10 such	fixed
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 attention	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 assistant	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 assistant	det
15	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 assistant	compound
16	assistant	assistant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 that	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 attention	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 required	aux:pass
19	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	require	present · passive		a stranger's attention					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition
3	attend		a stranger						nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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: Select the opening consistent with courtesy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 opening	det
3	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 courtesy	case
6	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the opening				consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Waiting silently until noticed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	silently	silently	ADV	_	1 Waiting	advmod
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 noticed	mark
4	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Waiting	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund						silently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	notice	participle							vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

«Excuse me»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Excuse	punct
2	Excuse	excuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Excuse	obj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Excuse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	excuse in a quote	imperative	you not said here	me					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

Option 3

«Oi, you there»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct
2	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	5 there	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oi	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 there	nsubj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A tap upon the back without speaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tap	det
2	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 back	det
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tap	nmod
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 speaking	mark
7	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tap	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund	a tap upon the back not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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