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# Test 16 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

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did u hear Leo laughed with a mouthful of sausage at lunch n went proper blue, they say the ambulance came n everything

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** u, Leo, lunch n, they, ambulance · **What happens:** hear, laugh, go, say, come · **To what, where:** everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 16 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/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t16:1
# text = did u hear Leo laughed with a mouthful of sausage at lunch n went proper blue, they say the ambulance came n everything
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	n	n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	n	n	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · do-support | u |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | Leo |  |  |  |  | with a mouthful of sausage | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | lunch n |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | past | the ambulance | everything |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location everything=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Don't laugh or talk with food in; the ambulance part may be exaggerated

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t16:o1:1
# text = Don't laugh or talk with food in; the ambulance part may be exaggerated
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **laugh** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with food | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with food=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **exaggerate** | may · passive |  | the ambulance part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ambulances come every time someone coughs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t16:o2:1
# text = Ambulances come every time someone coughs
1	Ambulances	ambulance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	coughs	cough	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Ambulances |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cough** | present | someone | every time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only sausages make people choke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t16:o3:1
# text = Only sausages make people choke
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sausages	sausage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | sausages | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choke** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Laughing while eating is totally safe as long as you are sitting down properly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t16:o4:1
# text = Laughing while eating is totally safe as long as you are sitting down properly
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Laughing |  |  |  |  | safe, totally *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit down** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | down, long, properly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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