Test 6 · ★ · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners

Why do people walk a guest to the door when they leave?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: walk, leave · To what, where: guest, door

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 walk	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walk	nsubj
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 guest	det
6	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 leave	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leave	nsubj
12	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present · do-support	people	a guest		the door			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent guest=Theme to door=Trajectory
2	leave	present	people						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1

To lock it as fast as possible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 lock	mark
2	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lock	obj
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 lock	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 possible	mark
7	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fast	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	to-infinitive		it				fast property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To check they took nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 check	ccomp
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	take	past	they	nothing					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It shows the guest was welcome

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	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guest	det
4	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 welcome	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 welcome	cop
6	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the guest					welcome property	tree rules

Option 4

Because the door is hard to open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 hard	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 open	mark
7	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the door					hard property	tree rules
2	open	to-infinitive	the door not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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