--- title: oops burped at dinner lol — Excuse me, and good manners at the table · tree and pragmatics description: oops burped at dinner lol Test 9 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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table oops burped at dinner lol **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** burp · **To what, where:** oops, dinner This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t9:1 # text = oops burped at dinner lol 1 oops oop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 burped burp VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 lol lol INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burp** | participle | | oops *not said here* | | dinner | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} Pretend it was your brother ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t9:o1:1 # text = Pretend it was your brother 1 Pretend pretend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | it | your brother | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Say nothing and keep eating ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t9:o2:1 # text = Say nothing and keep eating 1 Say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 1 obj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Burp again to make them laugh ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t9:o3:1 # text = Burp again to make them laugh 1 Burp burp VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 again again ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burp** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | again | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Say excuse me quietly ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:127-excuse-me-and-table-manners:t9:o4:1 # text = Say excuse me quietly 1 Say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **excuse** | infinitive | | me | | | | quietly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | **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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