Test 4 · ★ · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

At a sports day, a girl tells her coach, «This is my granny, Margaret.» Why is that helpful?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, This · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: coach, granny · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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: At a sports day, a girl tells her coach, «This is my granny, Margaret.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 day	compound
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	nsubj
8	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 coach	nmod:poss
10	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 granny	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 granny	punct
13	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 granny	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 granny	cop
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 granny	nmod:poss
16	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coach	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Margaret	punct
18	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 granny	appos
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tells	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a girl	girl's coach and my granny			day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	This	my granny					tree rules

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: Why is that helpful?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 helpful	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 helpful	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 helpful	mark
4	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 helpful	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

There's a rule that a granny's full name must be said at sports day

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 said	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 granny	det
7	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 name	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 granny	case
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 name	amod
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj:pass
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	aux:pass
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rule	acl:relcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 day	compound
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	present	a rule		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	must · passive		a granny's full name		day	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme that=Manner
3	name		a granny				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Grannies must always be introduced first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 introduced	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 introduced	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 introduced	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 introduced	aux:pass
5	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 introduced	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	introduce	must · passive		Grannies				always, first property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The coach knows who Margaret is to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coach	det
2	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	3 knows	ccomp
5	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 who	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 who	cop
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	the coach		Margaret				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	Margaret						tree rules

Option 4

The coach needs it for a form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coach	det
2	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needs	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 form	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 form	det
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the coach	it				for a form	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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