Test 12 · ★ · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners

one slice of pizza left, i want it 😋

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one slice · What happens: leave, want, slice · To what, where: one slice, pizza

This is test 12 · ★ 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	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 slice	nummod
2	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 pizza	case
4	pizza	pizza	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slice	nmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 slice	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 slice	punct
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 want	obj
10	😋	😋	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	leave	participle		one slice of pizza not said here	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	present	one slice of pizza	pizza	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	slice			pizza	nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

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

Take it, you saw it first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it				first property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	see	past	you	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

Grab it before anyone else does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grab	obj
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 does	mark
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 does	nsubj
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 anyone	advmod
6	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Grab	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	it					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	do	present	anyone						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ask if anyone else wants it first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wants	mark
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 wants	nsubj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 anyone	advmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wants	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 wants	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want a condition, not said to happen	present	anyone	it				first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4

Split it without asking anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Split	obj
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 asking	mark
4	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Split	advcl
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 asking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	imperative	you not said here	it					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	you not said here		anyone				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=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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