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title: Ascertain the appropriate greeting at a quarter past seven in the ev… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the appropriate greeting at a quarter past seven in the evening upon meeting a neighbour. Exam question 2 of lesson 121 «Greeting adults and teachers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Exam question 2 · Greeting adults and teachers

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Ascertain the appropriate greeting at a quarter past seven in the evening upon meeting a neighbour.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, meet · **To what, where:** appropriate greeting, quarter past, neighbour

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 121 «Greeting adults and teachers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the appropriate greeting at a quarter past seven in the evening upon meeting a neighbour.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the appropriate greeting |  | a quarter past | evening |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Topic |
| 2 | **meet** | gerund | you *not said here* | a neighbour |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Co-Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Good night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers:e2:o1:1
# text = Good night
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Good morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers:e2:o2:1
# text = Good morning
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Good evening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers:e2:o3:1
# text = Good evening
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Good afternoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers:e2:o4:1
# text = Good afternoon
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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