Test 8 · Manners and kindness

Which of these is NOT good manners?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be · To what, where: good manners

This is test 8 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	7 manners	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 these	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	1 Which	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 manners	cop
5	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 manners	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 manners	amod
7	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 manners	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present		good manners					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

Holding a door open for the person behind you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Holding	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 person	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obl
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Holding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		a door				for the person; behind you; open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent door=Theme behind you=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Interrupting someone in the middle of a sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Interrupting	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Interrupting	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Interrupting	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sentence	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sentence	det
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interrupt	gerund		someone		the middle of a sentence			tree rules

Option 3

Saying please when you ask for the salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	please	please	INTJ	_	1 Saying	discourse
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 ask	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Saying	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 salt	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 salt	det
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present	you					for the salt	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Saying sorry when you bump into someone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Saying	obj
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 bump	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bump	nsubj
5	bump	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Saying	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 someone	case
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 bump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		sorry					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic
2	bump	present	you			someone			vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into someone=Location

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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