Test 9 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

queue at the shop is huge, can i push in

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: queue, i · What happens: be, push in

This is test 9 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	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 huge	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 shop	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shop	det
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 queue	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 huge	cop
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 push	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 push	aux
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 push	nsubj
10	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 huge	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	queue at the shop					huge property	tree rules
2	push in	can	i						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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

Yes, if you only have one thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 thing	nummod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	one thing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

Option 2

Only if nobody's looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 looking	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 looking	mark
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 looking	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 looking	aux
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · progressive	nobody						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, wait your turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 wait	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 turn	nmod:poss
5	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wait	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	your turn					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, if you're in a hurry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 hurry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 hurry	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hurry	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hurry	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hurry	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hurry	det
8	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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