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Test 7 · ★ · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners

Your friend says «Ta» to the bus driver in Manchester. What is it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, driver · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Ta, bus driver · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Your friend says «Ta» to the bus driver in Manchester.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Ta	punct
5	Ta	Ta	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 Ta	punct
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 driver	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 driver	det
9	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 driver	compound
10	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Manchester	case
12	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 driver	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend	Ta	the bus driver in Manchester				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ta=Topic to driver=Recipient

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 is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	driver						tree rules

The options

Option 1

A rude word for the driver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
2	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 word	amod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 driver	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 driver	det
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	nmod

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

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

A way of saying thank you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thank	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 saying	mark
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 way	acl
5	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	a way not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	thank speech: thank	present	a way		you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3

A word that means stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 word	acl:relcl
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a word						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

A request for a ticket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 request	det
2	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 ticket	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ticket	det
5	ticket	ticket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 request	nmod

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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