--- title: At a gallery a sign says "Please touch" next to a sculpture. What is… — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes… · tree and pragmatics description: At a gallery a sign says "Please touch" next to a sculpture. What is right? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/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/) / [Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q… At a gallery a sign says "Please touch" next to a sculpture. What is right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sign · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** touch, gallery · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* At a gallery a sign says "Please touch" next to a sculpture. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t9:1 # text = At a gallery a sign says "Please touch" next to a sculpture. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 gallery gallery NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Please please INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ _ 9 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 next next ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sculpture sculpture NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a sign | touch | | a gallery | | next *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent touch=Topic | 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 is right? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t9:2 # text = What is right? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} You must still never touch it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t9:o1:1 # text = You must still never touch it 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 still still ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **touch** | must | You | it | | | still | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} You may touch that one gently ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t9:o2:1 # text = You may touch that one gently 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 advcl _ _ 6 gently gently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | may | You | | | | | gently *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} You may touch every work in the room ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t9:o3:1 # text = You may touch every work in the room 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | may | You | every work | | the room | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=Co-Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} You may climb on it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t9:o4:1 # text = You may climb on it 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | may | You | | | it | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | **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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