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title: mouth full of crisps, telling a joke rn — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics
description: mouth full of crisps, telling a joke rn Test 13 of lesson 127 «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» 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 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
mouth full of crisps, telling a joke rn

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** joke rn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 of lesson 127 «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» 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/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t13:1
# text = mouth full of crisps, telling a joke rn
1	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	rn	rn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | a joke rn |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rn=Recipient |

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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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Laugh while chewing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t13:o1:1
# text = Laugh while chewing
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chew** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Swallow first, you can choke if you laugh with food in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t13:o2:1
# text = Swallow first, you can choke if you laugh with food in
1	Swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **choke** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **laugh** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | with food | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stuff in more first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t13:o3:1
# text = Stuff in more first
1	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	nmod	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Talk fast, it's fine as long as you don't laugh too hard

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t13:o4:1
# text = Talk fast, it's fine as long as you don't laugh too hard
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fine, long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **laugh** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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