Test 14 · ★ · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

kids say the dinner lady "is just a dinner lady, doesn't matter if you're rude". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, dinner lady, you · What happens: say, be, not matter, pass on · To what, where: dinner lady, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	compound
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lady	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lady	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lady	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 lady	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lady	det
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lady	compound
11	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 matter	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 matter	advmod
15	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lady	acl:relcl
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 rude	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 rude	nsubj
18	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 rude	cop
19	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 matter	csubj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 rude	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
22	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pass	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	22 pass	compound:prt
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	the dinner lady	a dinner lady		tree rules
3	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	a dinner lady not said here			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		rude property	tree rules
5	pass on	infinitive		it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Yes, only the teachers really matter in a school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 matter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 teachers	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teachers	det
5	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 matter	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 matter	advmod
7	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 school	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 school	det
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	the teachers			a school			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, it's true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 true	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, every worker deserves the same respect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 deserves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 deserves	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 worker	det
4	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deserves	nsubj
5	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 respect	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 respect	amod
8	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deserves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	every worker	the same respect					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, and ignore her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ignore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ignore	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ignore	cc
4	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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