Test 4 · ★ · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners
A shopkeeper in Chicago says «How's it going?» as you come in. Which reply fits?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: shopkeeper, you, reply · What happens: say, go, come in, fit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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 shopkeeper in Chicago says «How's it going?» as you come in.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shopkeeper | det |
| 2 | shopkeeper | shopkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Chicago | case |
| 4 | Chicago | Chicago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shopkeeper | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 7 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 going | advmod |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 says | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | a shopkeeper in Chicago | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | shopkeeper | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come in | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Which reply fits?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fits | nsubj |
| 3 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | which reply | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
«That's my business»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 business | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 business | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 business | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 business | nmod:poss |
| 5 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 business | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | my business | tree rules |
Option 2
No reply at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 reply | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A ten-minute talk about your cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 talk | det |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minute | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ten | punct |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talk | compound |
| 5 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 cold | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cold | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talk | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
«Good, thanks! How are you?»
Sentence 1: «Good, thanks!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thanks | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanks | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: How are you?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 you | advmod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 you | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | tree rules |
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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