Test 5 · ★ · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

Which is true about goodbyes?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	about	about	ADP	_	5 goodbyes	case
5	goodbyes	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about goodbyes; true property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

They vary between countries and between friends and adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vary	nsubj
2	vary	vary	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	between	between	ADP	_	4 countries	case
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 vary	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 friends	cc
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 friends	case
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 countries	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 adults	cc
9	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 countries	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vary	present	They					between countries and friends and adults	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone in every country says the same goodbye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 says	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 country	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 country	det
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everyone	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goodbye	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 goodbye	amod
8	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Everyone	the same goodbye					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic

Option 3

Only «Goodbye» is polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 Goodbye	advmod
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 Goodbye	punct
3	Goodbye	Goodbye	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 polite	nsubj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 Goodbye	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 polite	cop
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

«Cheers» only ever means a toast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Cheers	punct
2	Cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 means	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Cheers	punct
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 means	advmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 means	advmod
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toast	det
8	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Cheers	a toast			ever		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Topic

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