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title: Which shows good manners in a shared place? — Good manners and safety in town: shops… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which shows good manners in a shared place? Test 8 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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 ri
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# Test 8 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which shows good manners in a shared place?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** show, share · **To what, where:** good manners

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This is test 8 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t8:1
# text = Which shows good manners in a shared place?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present |  | good manners |  |  |  | in a shared place | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent manners=Patient in place=Topic |
| 2 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Waiting in line, speaking quietly in the library and thanking staff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t8:o1:1
# text = Waiting in line, speaking quietly in the library and thanking staff
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
12	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  | line |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Location |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  | the library |  | quietly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund |  | staff |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pushing to the front if you are in a rush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t8:o2:1
# text = Pushing to the front if you are in a rush
1	Pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | gerund |  |  |  | the front |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to front=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | a rush |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Leaving rubbish on the seat for staff to pick up, since that is their job

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t8:o3:1
# text = Leaving rubbish on the seat for staff to pick up, since that is their job
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	since	since	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund |  | rubbish |  | the seat for staff |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme on seat=Location |
| 2 | **pick up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  | since their job |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Talking loudly on the phone in the library

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t8:o4:1
# text = Talking loudly on the phone in the library
1	Talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  | the phone |  | in the library; loudly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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