Test 11 · ★ · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners

dinner at grandads, my plate came first. dig in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dinner · What happens: come, dig in

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 296 «Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners» 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	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 grandads	case
3	grandads	grandad	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dinner	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 plate	nmod:poss
6	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 came	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
10	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 dig	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	dinner at grandads					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dig in	infinitive	dinner at grandads not said here						vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, the first served eats first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 first	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 first	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 eats	nsubj
5	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 first	cop
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 eats	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						first property	tree rules
2	eat	present	the first					first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Start with just the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 bread	case
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 bread	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bread	det
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here					with the bread	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with bread=Subeventuality

Option 3

Yes, eat now before it gets cold, he won't mind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 eat	advmod
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 gets	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	advcl
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gets	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mind	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mind	nsubj
11	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 mind	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 mind	advmod
13	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	it		cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	not mind	future	he			vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wait till everyone's served, unless he says start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 served	mark
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 served	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 served	aux:pass
5	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
7	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	9 says	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
10	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	serve	present · passive		everyone	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	start	infinitive			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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