--- title: A boy in Auckland wins a board game against his cousins. What shows… — Manners and kindness · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Auckland wins a board game against his cousins. What shows good manners? Test 9 of lesson 51 «Manners and kindness» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/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/) / [Manners and kindness](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/) / t9 # Test 9 · Manners and kindness A boy in Auckland wins a board game against his cousins. What shows good manners? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** win, show · **To what, where:** board game, good manners This is test 9 of lesson 51 «Manners and kindness» 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/51-manners-and-kindness/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A boy in Auckland wins a board game against his cousins. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:51-manners-and-kindness:t9:1 # text = A boy in Auckland wins a board game against his cousins. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Auckland Auckland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 against against ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | present | a boy in Auckland | a board game | | | | against boy's cousins | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality | 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 shows good manners? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:51-manners-and-kindness:t9:2 # text = What shows good manners? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 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 _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | | good manners | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent manners=Recipient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Telling the others they played badly ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:51-manners-and-kindness:t9:o1:1 # text = Telling the others they played badly 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | the others | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient | | 2 | **play** | past | others *= other* | | | | | badly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Cheering loudly in the losers' faces ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:51-manners-and-kindness:t9:o2:1 # text = Cheering loudly in the losers' faces 1 Cheering cheer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 losers loser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cheer** | gerund | | | | the losers's faces | | loudly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 3 {#o3} Packing the game away without a word ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:51-manners-and-kindness:t9:o3:1 # text = Packing the game away without a word 1 Packing pack VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 without without ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pack away** | gerund | | the game | | | | without a word; away *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme game=Destination | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Saying good game to everyone who played ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:51-manners-and-kindness:t9:o4:1 # text = Saying good game to everyone who played 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 1 obl _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | good game | everyone | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent game=Topic to everyone=Recipient | | 2 | **play** | past | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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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