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title: got a cold, coach wants us all to shake hands — Handshakes, waves and greetings around… · tree and pragmatics
description: got a cold, coach wants us all to shake hands Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

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got a cold, coach wants us all to shake hands

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** coach, us · **What happens:** get, want, shake · **To what, where:** cold, us, hands

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t9:1
# text = got a cold, coach wants us all to shake hands
1	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  | a cold |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus |
| 2 | **want** | present | coach | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | hands |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |

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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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Shake hands anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t9:o1:1
# text = Shake hands anyway
1	Shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | imperative | you *not said here* | hands |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hide in the changing room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t9:o2:1
# text = Hide in the changing room
1	Hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	changing	changing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the changing room |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |

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

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Explain and wave instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t9:o3:1
# text = Explain and wave instead
1	Explain	explain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wave	wave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wave** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cough into your hand and shake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t9:o4:1
# text = Cough into your hand and shake
1	Cough	cough	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cough** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | your hand |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into hand=Recipient |
| 2 | **shake** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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