Test 11 · Manners and kindness

bumped into a lady at the shop

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: bump · To what, where: shop

This is test 11 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	bumped	bump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 lady	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bumped	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 shop	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shop	det
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bump	participle				the shop		into a lady	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into lady=Location

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

Tell her to watch out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 watch	mark
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 watch	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	watch out not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Laugh it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Laugh	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	imperative	you not said here	it					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Keep walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	walk	gerund	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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