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Test 4 · ★ · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities

A waiter asks the friend of a man in a wheelchair, "What would he like?" What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: waiter · What happens: ask, like, be · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 298 «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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 waiter asks the friend of a man in a wheelchair, "What would he like?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 waiter	det
2	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 friend	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wheelchair	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wheelchair	det
11	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 like	obj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 like	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
17	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a waiter		the friend of a man in a wheelchair				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	waiter						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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 is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

They should ask the man himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ask	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ask	obj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 ask	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	should	They	man	the man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The friend should push the chair away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 push	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 push	aux
4	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chair	det
6	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 push	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push away	should	the friend	the chair				away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, that is the polite way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 way	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

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

Option 4

The waiter should bring the food without asking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 waiter	det
2	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 asking	mark
8	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bring	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	should	the waiter	the food					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	the waiter not said here						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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