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Test 1 · ★ · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

A new boy greets the head teacher warmly but walks past the lunch staff without a word. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new boy · What happens: greet, walk, be · To what, where: head teacher, lunch staff

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 323 «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, 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: A new boy greets the head teacher warmly but walks past the lunch staff without a word.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greets	nsubj
4	greets	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teacher	compound
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greets	obj
8	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	4 greets	advmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 walks	cc
10	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greets	conj
11	past	past	ADP	_	14 staff	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 staff	det
13	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 staff	compound
14	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walks	obl
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 word	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 word	det
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walks	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 greets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present	a new boy		the head teacher			warmly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme
2	walk	present	a new boy not said here			the lunch staff		without a word	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past staff=Trajectory

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

Greeting staff is only for adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 staff	compound
2	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adults	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 adults	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 adults	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Greeting staff					for adults	tree rules

Option 2

Lunch staff do not mind being ignored, because they are too busy to notice

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 staff	compound
2	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mind	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mind	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 mind	advmod
5	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ignored	aux:pass
7	ignored	ignore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mind	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 busy	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 busy	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 busy	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 busy	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 busy	advmod
13	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mind	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 notice	mark
15	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 busy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mind	present · do-support	Lunch staff						vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	ignore	gerund · passive	Lunch staff not said here						vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»
3	is	present	staff					busy property	tree rules
4	notice	to-infinitive	staff not said here						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Lunch staff deserve the same kindness as the head teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 staff	compound
2	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 deserve	nsubj
3	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kindness	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kindness	amod
6	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deserve	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 teacher	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 teacher	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teacher	compound
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deserve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	Lunch staff	the same kindness				as the head teacher	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only teachers need to be greeted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 teachers	advmod
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 greeted	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 greeted	aux:pass
6	greeted	greet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	teachers						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	greet speech: greet not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	teachers not said here						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»

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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