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Test 6 · ★ · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

A boy in a bakery says, «Give me a doughnut.» What would be more polite?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: say, give, be · To what, where: doughnut, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 boy in a bakery says, «Give me a doughnut.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bakery	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bakery	det
5	bakery	bakery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Give	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Give	punct
9	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Give	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 doughnut	det
12	doughnut	doughnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Give	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a boy in a bakery						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	infinitive		a doughnut	a boy in a bakery = boy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient doughnut=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.

Sentence 2: What would be more polite?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 polite	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 polite	cop
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 polite	advmod
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 polite	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

«I want a doughnut now.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 doughnut	det
5	doughnut	doughnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 want	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	I	a doughnut			now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doughnut=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

«Please may I have a doughnut?» and «Thank you» after

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	Please	please	INTJ	_	5 have	discourse
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 doughnut	det
7	doughnut	doughnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Thank	cc
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 Thank	punct
12	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 Thank	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 Thank	punct
15	after	after	ADP	_	12 Thank	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	may	I	a doughnut					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doughnut=Patient
2	thank after speech: thank in a quote	present	I not said here		you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3

Pointing and saying nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 saying	cc
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Pointing	conj
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	gerund							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund		nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 4

«A doughnut, quick, I'm in a hurry!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 doughnut	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 doughnut	det
3	doughnut	doughnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 quick	punct
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 doughnut	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hurry	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hurry	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hurry	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hurry	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hurry	det
11	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doughnut	appos
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 hurry	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 doughnut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I			a hurry			tree rules

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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