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Test 9 · Manners and kindness

A boy in Auckland wins a board game against his cousins. What shows good manners?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: win, show · To what, where: board game, good manners

This is test 9 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: A boy in Auckland wins a board game against his cousins.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wins	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Auckland	case
4	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 game	det
7	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 game	compound
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wins	obj
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 cousins	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cousins	nmod:poss
11	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wins	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wins	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	a boy in Auckland	a board game				against boy's cousins	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality

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 shows good manners?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 manners	amod
4	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 shows	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present		good manners					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent manners=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Telling the others they played badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 played	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 others	det
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Telling	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 played	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		the others					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient
2	play	past	others = other					badly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Cheering loudly in the losers' faces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheering	cheer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Cheering	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 faces	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 losers	det
5	losers	loser	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 faces	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 losers	case
7	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cheering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	gerund				the losers's faces		loudly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Packing the game away without a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Packing	pack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Packing	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Packing	advmod
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 word	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Packing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack away	gerund		the game				without a word; away property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme game=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Saying good game to everyone who played

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 game	amod
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 everyone	case
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Saying	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 played	nsubj
7	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 everyone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		good game	everyone				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent game=Topic to everyone=Recipient
2	play	past							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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