Test 18 · ★ · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners

did u hear a boy laughed with his mouth full at dinner and "choked so bad his dad had to do the thing on him". lesson?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, boy, dad · What happens: hear, laugh, choke, have, do · To what, where: lesson, thing

This is test 18 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughed	nsubj
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouth	nmod:poss
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughed	obl
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mouth	amod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 dinner	case
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 full	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 choked	cc
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 choked	punct
15	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 bad	advmod
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 choked	xcomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dad	nmod:poss
19	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 choked	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thing	det
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	obl
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 choked	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
29	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	lesson		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	laugh	past	a boy		with boy's mouth	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	choke in a quote	past	a boy not said here		bad property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	have in a quote	past	boy's dad			tree rules
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	boy's dad not said here	the thing	on boy	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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

Choking only happens with big bites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Choking	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 bites	case
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bites	amod
6	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choke	gerund							vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	happen	present						with big bites	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't talk or laugh with food in your mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 talk	advmod
3	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 laugh	cc
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	imperative · do-support	you not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	infinitive	you not said here					with food; in your mouth	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mouth=Theme

Option 3

Only laugh at dinner if you can chew really fast first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 laugh	advmod
2	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 dinner	case
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laugh	obl
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 chew	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 chew	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 chew	aux
8	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 laugh	advcl
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 chew	advmod
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 chew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here			dinner			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chew a condition, not said to happen	can	you					fast, first property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Drink water while laughing to be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drink	obj
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	4 laughing	mark
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Drink	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	7 safe	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laughing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	imperative	you not said here	water		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	laugh	gerund	you not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	you not said here		safe property	tree rules

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