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Test 8 · ★ · Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners

Sashko's granny shakes her head when you try to shake hands across the doorway. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: granny, you · What happens: shake, try · To what, where: head, hands, doorway

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Sashko's granny shakes her head when you try to shake hands across the doorway.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 granny	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sashko	case
3	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shakes	nsubj
4	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shakes	obj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 try	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 try	nsubj
9	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shakes	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 shake	mark
11	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 try	xcomp
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shake	obj
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 doorway	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 doorway	det
15	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shake	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shakes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	present	Sashko's granny	granny's head					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	try	present	you						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	shake not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	hands		the doorway			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme across doorway=Trajectory

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Many families avoid things across the threshold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 families	amod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 avoid	nsubj
3	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 avoid	obj
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 threshold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 threshold	det
7	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 avoid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	present	Many families	things		the threshold			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Location

Option 2

Her hands are wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hands	nmod:poss
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wet	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wet	cop
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her hands					wet property	tree rules

Option 3

She is angry with you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					with you; angry property	tree rules

Option 4

She doesn't like handshakes at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	handshakes	handshake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 like	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	She	handshakes		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot handshake=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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