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Test 8 · ★ · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

You want to ask a stranger at the bus stop the time. Which is best?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: want, ask, be · To what, where: stranger, bus stop

This is test 8 · ★ 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: You want to ask a stranger at the bus stop the time.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 ask	mark
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	iobj
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 stop	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stop	det
9	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stop	compound
10	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obl:unmarked
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	You						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here		a stranger	the bus stop	time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient

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: Which is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Pull their sleeve and point at their watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sleeve	nmod:poss
3	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pull	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 point	cc
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeve	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 watch	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 watch	nmod:poss
8	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	their sleeve and point		sleeve's watch			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sleeve=Theme at watch=Asset

Option 2

Shout «Time!» at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 Time	punct
3	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Shout	punct
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Shout	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here				time	at them = they	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

«What's the time?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 time	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«Excuse me, do you know the time, please?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Excuse	punct
2	Excuse	excuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Excuse	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Excuse	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Excuse	punct
11	please	please	INTJ	_	2 Excuse	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Excuse	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Excuse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	excuse in a quote	imperative	you not said here	me					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	know in a quote	present · do-support	you				time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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