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title: A girl gives a handshake so limp it feels like a fish. What impressi… — Respect for everyone, greetings, goodb… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl gives a handshake so limp it feels like a fish. What impression may it give? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 221 «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and 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 c
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# Test 2 · ★ · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table

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A girl gives a handshake so limp it feels like a fish. What impression may it give?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl, handshake, impression · **What happens:** give, limp, feel · **To what, where:** handshake

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 221 «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and 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/221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl gives a handshake so limp it feels like a fish.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table:t2:1
# text = A girl gives a handshake so limp it feels like a fish.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	handshake	handshake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	limp	limp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | a girl | a handshake |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handshake=Theme |
| 2 | **limp** | infinitive | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | present | handshake |  |  |  |  | like a fish | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like fish=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What impression may it give?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table:t2:2
# text = What impression may it give?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | may | impression |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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That she is very polite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table:t2:o1:1
# text = That she is very polite
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That she is in a hurry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table:t2:o2:1
# text = That she is in a hurry
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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That she is unfriendly or not interested

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table:t2:o3:1
# text = That she is unfriendly or not interested
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	unfriendly	unfriendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | unfriendly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **be** |  | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That she is very strong and does not need to try hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table:t2:o4:1
# text = That she is very strong and does not need to try hard
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **try** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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