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Test 8 · ★ · Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners

You are at a friend's for dinner and her mum says, «Go ahead and start, it'll get cold». What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, mum, dinner · What happens: be, say, go, start, get · To what, where: dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: You are at a friend's for dinner and her mum says, «Go ahead and start, it'll get cold».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 dinner	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dinner	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dinner	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 friend	case
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dinner	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct
15	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 says	ccomp
16	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	15 Go	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 start	cc
18	start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 Go	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 get	nsubj
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 get	aux
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Go	parataxis
23	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 get	xcomp
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dinner	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You			a friend's dinner			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	friend's mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive						ahead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	start in a quote	infinitive							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	get in a quote	future	dinner					cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Eat only after everyone has finished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Eat	advmod
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 finished	mark
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 finished	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	aux
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Eat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	finish	present · perfect	everyone						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Wait anyway until she sits down too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Wait	advmod
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 sits	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sits	nsubj
5	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sits	compound:prt
7	too	too	ADV	_	5 sits	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					anyway property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	present	she						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Start eating, because the host said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Start	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 host	det
6	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Start	parataxis
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	you not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the host						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Ask for a different meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 meal	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meal	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meal	amod
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here					for a different meal	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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