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Test 2 · ★ · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

A girl meets her mum's boss and shakes hands like a limp fish. What could she do better next time?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: meet, shake, do · To what, where: boss, hands

This is test 2 · ★ 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 girl meets her mum's boss and shakes hands like a limp fish.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meets	nsubj
3	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boss	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mum	case
7	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meets	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shakes	cc
9	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 meets	conj
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shakes	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 fish	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fish	det
13	limp	limp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fish	amod
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hands	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	a girl	girl's mum's boss					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=Co-Agent
2	shake	present	a girl not said here	hands				like a limp fish	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=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.

Sentence 2: What could she do better next time?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 do	advmod
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl:unmarked
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	could	girl				time	well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Not shake hands at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 shake	advmod
2	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shake	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 shake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shake	imperative	you not said here	hands		all			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Squeeze as hard as she can to show she is confident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 hard	advmod
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Squeeze	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 can	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 can	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Squeeze	advcl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 confident	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 confident	cop
11	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here					hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	show	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	she					confident property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Grip firmly but gently for two or three shakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	1 Grip	advmod
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 gently	cc
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	2 firmly	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 shakes	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 shakes	nummod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 three	cc
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 two	conj
9	shakes	shake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Grip	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Shake for a whole minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 minute	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 minute	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 minute	amod
5	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	imperative	you not said here				minute		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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