Test 15 · Manners and kindness

bus is packed, gonna shove to get a seat

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pack, shove, get · To what, where: bus, seat

This is test 15 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	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 packed	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 packed	aux:pass
3	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shove	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 shove	dep
6	shove	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 packed	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shove	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 seat	det
10	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	pack	present · passive	bus	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	shove	infinitive		tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	a seat	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seat=Stimulus

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

Shove, everyone does it, that's how buses work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shove	shove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shove	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 does	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 how	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 how	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 how	cop
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 work	advmod
10	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 work	nsubj
11	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	everyone	Shove		tree rules
2	is	present	that		how property	tree rules
3	work	present	buses			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Wait your turn, shoving can knock someone over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 turn	nmod:poss
3	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knock	punct
5	shoving	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 knock	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 knock	aux
7	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	parataxis
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 knock	obj
9	over	over	ADV	_	7 knock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	your turn	tree rules
2	shove	gerund			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	knock over	can		someone	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent someone=Patient

Option 3

Push only the grown-ups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	6 ups	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ups	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ups	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 grown	punct
6	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Push	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here	the grown ups					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Push but say sorry after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 say	cc
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Push	conj
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	xcomp
5	after	after	ADP	_	3 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent after=Topic

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