Test 12 · ★ · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

did u hear a boy pushed past an old lady in the queue without saying excuse me and "she fell and broke her hip". lesson?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, she · What happens: hear, push, say, excuse, fall, break · To what, where: boy, queue, me, hip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 boy	acl
7	past	past	ADP	_	10 lady	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lady	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lady	amod
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushed	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 queue	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 queue	det
13	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushed	obl
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 saying	mark
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pushed	advcl
16	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 saying	xcomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 excuse	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fell	cc
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 fell	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fell	nsubj
21	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 broke	cc
23	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fell	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hip	nmod:poss
25	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broke	obj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 fell	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
28	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	a boy		lesson obl:unmarked	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	push	participle		a boy not said here	the queue	past a old lady	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent past lady=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	excuse	infinitive		me			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	fall in a quote	past	she				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	break in a quote	past	she not said here	her hip			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hip=Patient

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

Push gently and it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Push	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fine	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	expl
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Push	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here					gently property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you not said here					fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say excuse me instead of pushing past people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 excuse	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 pushing	mark
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 excuse	advcl
7	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	excuse	infinitive		me	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	push	gerund		past people	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Old people should stay home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	should	Old people					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Queues are first come first served, so push to get where you should be

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Queues	queue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux:pass
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 served	advmod
6	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 come	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 push	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 push	advmod
9	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 push	xcomp
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 be	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 be	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 be	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present · passive	Queues	first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	serve	participle		first property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
3	push	infinitive			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get	to-infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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