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Test 2 · ★ · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners

Your mate says "a superstition is silly, just ignore granny's rule". What is the polite thing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, superstition, granny, polite thing · What happens: say, be, ignore, rule · To what, where: rule · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 30 «Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners» of the Ukrainian street 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 mate says "a superstition is silly, just ignore granny's rule".

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 silly	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 superstition	det
6	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 silly	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 silly	cop
8	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ignore	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 ignore	advmod
11	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 silly	conj
12	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rule	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 granny	case
14	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ignore	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 silly	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	a superstition					silly property	tree rules
3	ignore in a quote	infinitive	a superstition not said here	granny's rule					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
4	rule in a quote		granny						nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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 thing?

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 thing	det
4	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the polite thing						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Argue with granny until she agrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 granny	case
3	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Argue	obl
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 agrees	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 agrees	nsubj
6	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Argue	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	imperative	you not said here					with granny	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with granny=Co-Agent
2	agree speech: agree	present	she						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Follow the house rule anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rule	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	compound
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Follow	obj
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Follow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	imperative	you not said here	the house rule				anyway property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme

Option 3

Leave the house and never come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 come	cc
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the house					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	not come back	infinitive	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Whistle louder to prove her wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 louder	obl:unmarked
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 prove	mark
4	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 louder	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prove	obj
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prove	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	to-infinitive		her = she				wrong property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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