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Test 2 · ★ · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners

A boy squeezes a visitor's hand so hard it hurts. What would be better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, hand · What happens: squeeze, hurt, be · To what, where: hand

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy squeezes a visitor's hand so hard it hurts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squeezes	nsubj
3	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 visitor	det
5	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 visitor	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squeezes	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 hard	advmod
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 squeezes	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurts	nsubj
11	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hard	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 squeezes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	present	a boy	a visitor's hand				hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	hurt	present	hand						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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.

Sentence 2: What would be better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 better	obl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 better	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Shaking with both hands very hard and for a long time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 hands	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hands	det
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shaking	obl
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Shaking	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hard	cc
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund					time	with both hands; hard property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with hand=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A firm but gentle grip for two or three shakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grip	det
2	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grip	amod
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 gentle	cc
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 firm	conj
5	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 shakes	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 shakes	nummod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 three	cc
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 two	conj
10	shakes	shake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grip	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A limp, floppy handshake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 handshake	det
2	limp	limp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 handshake	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 limp	punct
4	floppy	floppy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 handshake	amod
5	handshake	handshake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

No handshake ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 handshake	det
2	handshake	handshake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 again	advmod
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 handshake	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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