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title: It is given that a family dines at a sit-down restaurant in the USA.… — Walking, seat belts, buses, airports,… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that a family dines at a sit-down restaurant in the USA. Select the customary tip. Exam question 3 of lesson 331 «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Exam question 3 · Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues…

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It is given that a family dines at a sit-down restaurant in the USA. Select the customary tip.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family, you · **What happens:** give, dine, select · **To what, where:** It, sit restaurant, customary tip

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 331 «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping/#e3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a family dines at a sit-down restaurant in the USA.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping:e3:1
# text = It is given that a family dines at a sit-down restaurant in the USA.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dines	dine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	sit	sit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound	_	_
13	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **dine** | present | a family |  |  | a sit restaurant in the USA |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Select the customary tip.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping:e3:2
# text = Select the customary tip.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the customary tip |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About half the bill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping:e3:o1:1
# text = About half the bill
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About one per cent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping:e3:o2:1
# text = About one per cent
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No tip whatsoever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping:e3:o3:1
# text = No tip whatsoever
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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About fifteen to twenty per cent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping:e3:o4:1
# text = About fifteen to twenty per cent
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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