Test 2 · Manners and kindness

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

Manners are needed only at school and at parties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 needed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needed	aux:pass
3	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 school	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 parties	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 parties	case
9	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 school	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		Manners					tree rules

Option 2

Manners matter only when an adult is watching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 matter	nsubj
2	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	8 watching	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 watching	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watching	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 watching	aux
8	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 matter	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Manners						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	watch	present · progressive	a adult						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Good manners mean always agreeing with everyone you talk to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 manners	amod
2	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 mean	advmod
5	agreeing	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mean	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 agreeing	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 talk	nsubj
9	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 everyone	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	5 agreeing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Good manners	always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	agree speech: agree not said to happen	gerund	Good manners not said here	with everyone	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with everyone=Co-Agent
3	talk	present	you		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Manners matter with everyone, not just with teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 matter	nsubj
2	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 everyone	case
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 matter	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 teachers	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 teachers	advmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 teachers	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 teachers	case
9	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 everyone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Manners					with everyone	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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