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Test 3 · ★ · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

A visitor from Ireland in Texas is asked «How's it going?» by a passing waiter and starts telling him about her flight. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: visitor · What happens: ask, go, pass, start, tell, be · To what, where: visitor, Texas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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 visitor from Ireland in Texas is asked «How's it going?» by a passing waiter and starts telling him about her flight.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 visitor	det
2	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj:pass
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 visitor	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Texas	case
6	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ireland	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	aux:pass
8	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
10	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 going	advmod
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 asked	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 waiter	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 waiter	det
18	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 waiter	amod
19	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 starts	cc
21	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	conj
22	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 starts	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 telling	iobj
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 flight	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 flight	nmod:poss
26	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 telling	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · passive		a visitor from Ireland in Texas					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	visitor					by a passing waiter	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by waiter=Location
3	pass	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	start	present							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	gerund			Texas			about Ireland's flight	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about flight=Topic

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 is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She should not have answered at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 answered	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 answered	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	aux
5	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 answered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	should · perfect	She			all			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A quick «Good, thanks!» was all that was expected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thanks	det
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thanks	amod
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 thanks	punct
4	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thanks	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Good	punct
6	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 thanks	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 thanks	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 all	cop
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 expected	nsubj:pass
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 expected	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 expected	aux:pass
13	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thanks	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past · passive		all					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

It is rude to answer in Texas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 answer	mark
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rude	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Texas	case
7	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					rude property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive				Texas			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The waiter wanted every detail, because Texans like long stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 waiter	det
2	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 detail	det
5	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Texans	punct
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 Texans	case
8	Texans	texan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 stories	case
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stories	amod
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Texans	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the waiter	every detail				because Texans like long stories	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot detail=Theme

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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