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title: gonna crush his hand when we shake, show who's boss — Handshakes, waves and greetings around… · tree and pragmatics
description: gonna crush his hand when we shake, show who's boss Test 13 · ★ of lesson 124 «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» 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 was wrong.
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# Test 13 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

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gonna crush his hand when we shake, show who's boss

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** crush, shake, show, be · **To what, where:** hand, boss · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 124 «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t13:1
# text = gonna crush his hand when we shake, show who's boss
1	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
2	crush	crush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shake	shake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crush** | imperative | you *not said here* | his hand |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **shake** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | present | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | boss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Pull him towards you hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t13:o1:1
# text = Pull him towards you hard
1	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | towards you; hard *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme towards you=Destination |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Shake firmly but gently, crushing hurts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t13:o2:1
# text = Shake firmly but gently, crushing hurts
1	Shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	crushing	crush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	hurts	hurt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | firmly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **crush** | gerund | you *not said here* | hurts |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Squeeze as hard as you can

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t13:o3:1
# text = Squeeze as hard as you can
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Shake for a full minute so he knows you mean it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t13:o4:1
# text = Shake for a full minute so he knows you mean it
1	Shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mean** | present | you | it |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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