Test 19 · ★ · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners

my cousin says at a restaurant a lady was rude to the waiter and "got banned from the whole town". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, lady · What happens: say, be, ban, exaggerate · To what, where: restaurant, whole town, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 restaurant	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 restaurant	det
6	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rude	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rude	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rude	cop
10	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 waiter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 waiter	det
13	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rude	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 banned	cc
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 banned	punct
16	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 banned	aux:pass
17	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 rude	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 town	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 town	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 town	amod
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 banned	obl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 town	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 prob	advmod
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 prob	cop
26	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
27	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	a lady		a restaurant	to the waiter; rude property	tree rules
3	ban in a quote	past · passive	a lady not said here		the whole town		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: from town=Eventuality
4	is a	present		prob			tree rules
5	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here			tree rules

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

That rudeness can hurt people's feelings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 rudeness	det
2	rudeness	rudeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feelings	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 people	case
7	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	can	that rudeness	people's feelings					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The town ban; but rudeness to workers does hurt them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ban	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ban	compound
3	ban	ban	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hurt	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 rudeness	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 rudeness	cc
6	rudeness	rudeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ban	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 workers	case
8	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rudeness	nmod
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hurt	aux
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present · do-support	the town ban but rudeness to workers	workers = worker					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient

Option 3

That restaurants have waiters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 restaurants	det
2	restaurants	restaurant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	waiters	waiter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	that restaurants	waiters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waiter=Patient

Option 4

That waiters bring food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 waiters	det
2	waiters	waiter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	nsubj
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	that waiters	food					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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