Test 10 · Manners and kindness

gimme the ketchup

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: gimme · To what, where: ketchup

This is test 10 of lesson 51 «Manners and kindness» 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	gimme	gimme	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ketchup	det
3	ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gimme	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gimme	imperative	you not said here	the ketchup					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Please can you pass the ketchup?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Please	please	INTJ	_	4 pass	discourse
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pass	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 pass	nsubj
4	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ketchup	det
6	ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pass	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pass	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	can	you	the ketchup					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ketchup=Trajectory

Option 2

Just reach across and grab it, it's quicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 reach	advmod
2	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADV	_	2 reach	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grab	cc
5	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 reach	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grab	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quicker	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 quicker	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 quicker	cop
10	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 reach	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	imperative	you not said here		across property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grab	infinitive	you not said here	it		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	present	it		quick property	tree rules

Option 3

Ketchup, now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ketchup	punct
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Ketchup	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Give it here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	it		here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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