Test 17 · ★ · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners

mate leaning back on his chair at dinner

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: lean back · To what, where: chair

This is test 17 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 mate	acl
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 leaning	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 chair	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 chair	nmod:poss
6	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaning	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean back	gerund	mate not said here			his chair		at dinner	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Tell him to sit properly, he could fall back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sit	mark
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fall	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fall	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fall	aux
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		properly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall back	could	he			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It's fine as long as the floor is flat and smooth

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 flat	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 flat	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flat	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flat	cop
10	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 smooth	cc
12	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		fine property	tree rules
2	is	present	the floor	flat, long property	tree rules
3	be		the floor not said here		tree rules

Option 3

It's fine if he holds the table

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 holds	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 holds	nsubj
6	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	hold a condition, not said to happen	present	he	the table					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only adults fall off chairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 adults	advmod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	nsubj
3	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 fall	compound:prt
5	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	present	adults	chairs					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient chair=Extent

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