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title: You have to introduce yourself at a new Scout group. Which is best? — More greetings and making introductions · tree and pragmatics
description: You have to introduce yourself at a new Scout group. Which is best? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 125 «More greetings and making introductions» 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 8 · ★ · More greetings and making introductions

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You have to introduce yourself at a new Scout group. Which is best?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** have, introduce, be · **To what, where:** yourself, new Scout group

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 125 «More greetings and making introductions» 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/125-greetings-and-introductions/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You have to introduce yourself at a new Scout group.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions:t8:1
# text = You have to introduce yourself at a new Scout group.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	introduce	introduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Scout	Scout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **introduce** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | yourself |  | a new Scout group |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which is best?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions:t8:2
# text = Which is best?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A story about everything you did last year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions:t8:o1:1
# text = A story about everything you did last year
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | a story about everything |  |  |  | year |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Your full address and phone number

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions:t8:o2:1
# text = Your full address and phone number
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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"Hi, I'm Ava, I'm nine and I like camping"

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions:t8:o3:1
# text = "Hi, I'm Ava, I'm nine and I like camping"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	camping	camp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | Ava |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | nine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **camp** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Hi" and nothing more for the rest of the evening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions:t8:o4:1
# text = "Hi" and nothing more for the rest of the evening
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	conj	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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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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