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Test 7 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…

In a temple, the people take off their shoes at the door. What should a visitor do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people, visitor · What happens: take off, do · To what, where: shoes, temple

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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: In a temple, the people take off their shoes at the door.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 temple	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 temple	det
3	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 temple	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 take	compound:prt
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoes	nmod:poss
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	present	the people	people's shoes		a temple		at the door	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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: What should a visitor do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 visitor	det
4	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	a visitor						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Carry them inside in their hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carry	obj
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	1 Carry	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	them = they		their hands		inside property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in hand=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Take off their shoes too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Take	compound:prt
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoes	nmod:poss
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	imperative	you not said here	their shoes					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Keep them on, since they are a visitor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Keep	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 visitor	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 visitor	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 visitor	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 visitor	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 visitor	det
9	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep on	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is a	present	they	a visitor					tree rules

Option 4

Ask why and keep them on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Ask	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 keep	cc
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	4 keep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep on	infinitive	you not said here	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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