Test 17 · ★ · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

a friend's mum has a girlfriend and the friend says "my mum's girlfriend, Kate". how do you greet Kate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, friend, you · What happens: have, say, greet · To what, where: girlfriend, Kate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mum	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 friend	case
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girlfriend	det
7	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 says	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 friend	det
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 girlfriend	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mum	nmod:poss
14	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 girlfriend	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 mum	case
16	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Kate	punct
18	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 girlfriend	appos
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 girlfriend	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 greet	advmod
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 greet	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 greet	nsubj
24	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 has	parataxis
25	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 greet	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	present	a friend's mum	a girlfriend		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girlfriend=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	the friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	greet speech: greet	present · do-support	you		Kate	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kate=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

Ignore Kate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ignore	obj

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

Option 2

Ask her why your friend's mum has a girlfriend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 has	advmod
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mum	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 friend	case
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 girlfriend	det
10	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	present	your friend's mum	a girlfriend					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girlfriend=Patient

Option 3

Laugh and tell other kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tell	cc
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kids	amod
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		other kids				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Like any grown-up, «Hi Kate, nice to meet you»

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 any	case
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	root	root
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 any	acl
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 grown	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 any	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Kate	punct
8	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	9 Kate	discourse
9	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 any	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nice	punct
11	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Kate	amod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 meet	mark
13	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nice	xcomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 meet	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 nice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet in a quote	to-infinitive		you					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent

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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