Test 8 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

Which shows good manners in a shared place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: show, share · To what, where: good manners

This is test 8 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 manners	amod
4	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 shows	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 place	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present		good manners				in a shared place	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent manners=Patient in place=Topic
2	share	participle							tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Waiting in line, speaking quietly in the library and thanking staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 line	case
3	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waiting	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 speaking	punct
5	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Waiting	conj
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 speaking	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 library	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 library	det
9	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speaking	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thanking	cc
11	thanking	thank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Waiting	conj
12	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thanking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund		line		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Location
2	speak speech: other	gerund		the library	quietly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank	gerund	staff			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme

Option 2

Pushing to the front if you are in a rush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 front	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 front	det
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pushing	obl
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 rush	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 rush	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rush	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 rush	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rush	det
10	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pushing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund				the front			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to front=Trajectory
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			a rush			tree rules

Option 3

Leaving rubbish on the seat for staff to pick up, since that is their job

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 seat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 seat	det
5	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 staff	case
7	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seat	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pick	mark
9	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leaving	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 pick	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leaving	punct
12	since	since	ADP	_	16 job	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 job	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 job	cop
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 job	nmod:poss
16	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	leave	gerund		rubbish	the seat for staff		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme on seat=Location
2	pick up	to-infinitive					vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	that			since their job	tree rules

Option 4

Talking loudly on the phone in the library

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Talking	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 phone	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 phone	det
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talking	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 library	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 library	det
8	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund				the phone		in the library; loudly property	vn talk-37.5 «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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