Test 6 · Manners and kindness
Your friend lends you a pencil for a test. What is the polite way to return it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, polite way · What happens: lend, be, return · To what, where: pencil, you, way
This is test 6 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
Sentence 1: Your friend lends you a pencil for a test.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lends | nsubj |
| 3 | lends | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lends | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pencil | det |
| 6 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lends | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 test | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 test | det |
| 9 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lends | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | present | Your friend | a pencil | you | for a test | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient pencil=Theme |
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: What is the polite way to return it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 return | mark |
| 7 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 return | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the polite way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | the polite way not said here | way | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Give it back only if they ask for it
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 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Give | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 ask | advmod |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | imperative | you not said here | it | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | they | for it | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Keep it, since they gave it to you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| 4 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 gave | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | parataxis |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | it | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | they | it | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient |
Option 3
Drop it on their desk without a single word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Drop | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 desk | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 desk | nmod:poss |
| 5 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drop | obl |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 word | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 8 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 word | amod |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drop | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | imperative | you not said here | it | their desk | without a single word | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on desk=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Give it back and say thanks for lending it
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 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Give | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 say | cc |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 6 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 lending | mark |
| 8 | lending | lend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 say | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lending | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | imperative | you not said here | it | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | thanks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lend | gerund | you not said here | thanks | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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