--- title: At a family dinner in Canada, everyone has food except Grandpa. What… — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics description: At a family dinner in Canada, everyone has food except Grandpa. What do you do? Test 3 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Excuse me, and good manners at the table](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/) / t3 # Test 3 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table At a family dinner in Canada, everyone has food except Grandpa. What do you do? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** everyone, you · **What happens:** have, do · **To what, where:** food, family dinner This is test 3 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/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* At a family dinner in Canada, everyone has food except Grandpa. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t3:1 # text = At a family dinner in Canada, everyone has food except Grandpa. 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 9 nsubj _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 except except ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Grandpa Grandpa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | everyone | food | | a family dinner in Canada | | except Grandpa | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What do you do? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t3:2 # text = What do you do? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Eat half and then wait ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t3:o1:1 # text = Eat half and then wait 1 Eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 1 obj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 5 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | half | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient | | 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | then | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Ask Grandpa to hurry up ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t3:o2:1 # text = Ask Grandpa to hurry up 1 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Grandpa Grandpa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 hurry hurry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | Grandpa | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent grandpa=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **hurry up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Wait until Grandpa is served too ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t3:o3:1 # text = Wait until Grandpa is served too 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 until until SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 Grandpa Grandpa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 advcl _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **serve** | present · passive | | Grandpa | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ### Option 4 {#o4} Start, because your food is ready ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t3:o4:1 # text = Start, because your food is ready 1 Start start VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | your food | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | **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. 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