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# Exam question 4 · More greetings and making introductions

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Select the response consistent with established courtesy towards a person who uses a wheelchair during a lengthy conversation.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** select, establish, use · **To what, where:** response, wheelchair

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 125 «More greetings and making introductions» 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/125-greetings-and-introductions/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions:e4:1
# text = Select the response consistent with established courtesy towards a person who uses a wheelchair during a lengthy conversation.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	lengthy	lengthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | towards a person | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **use** | present | a person | a wheelchair |  |  | during a lengthy conversation |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelchair=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 {#o1}

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Raise one's voice so as to be clearly heard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions:e4:o1:1
# text = Raise one's voice so as to be clearly heard
1	Raise	raise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | imperative | you *not said here* | one's voice |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |

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

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Greet them as anyone, and sit at their eye level

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions:e4:o2:1
# text = Greet them as anyone, and sit at their eye level
1	Greet	greet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | them *= they* |  |  | as anyone | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme as anyone=Attribute |
| 2 | **sit** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | their eye level |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at level=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Avoid greeting them so as not to cause trouble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions:e4:o3:1
# text = Avoid greeting them so as not to cause trouble
1	Avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	greeting	greet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | gerund | you *not said here* |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **cause** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Speak only to the person pushing the wheelchair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions:e4:o4:1
# text = Speak only to the person pushing the wheelchair
1	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **push** | gerund | the person *not said here* | the wheelchair |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelchair=Theme |

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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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