Test 11 · ★ · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

shook the new kid's hand super hard to look strong

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: shake, look · To what, where: hand

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kid	amod
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 kid	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shook	obj
7	super	super	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 shook	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hard	xcomp
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past		the new kid's hand					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	look	to-infinitive						strong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Harder is better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 better	advcl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A firm but gentle handshake is enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 handshake	det
2	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 handshake	amod
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 gentle	cc
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 firm	conj
5	handshake	handshake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enough	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 enough	cop
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Do it with both hands hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Do	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 hands	case
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hands	det
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Do	obl
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	it				with both hands; hard property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Squeeze until he winces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 winces	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 winces	nsubj
4	winces	wince	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Squeeze	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wince	present	he	Squeeze not said here					tree rules

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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