Test 4 · ★ · Cossack Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the whip breaks the spell…

why did the prince say it was cringe, like, what's the drama?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince, it, cringe · What happens: say, be · To what, where: cringe, drama · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1134 «Cossack Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the whip breaks the spell and the princess becomes human» of the books 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cringe	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cringe	cop
8	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	8 cringe	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 drama	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 drama	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 drama	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 drama	det
15	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cringe	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	cringe and the drama	tree rules
3	is a	present	cringe and the drama	the drama	tree rules

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

Option 1

It's just boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boring	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boring	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 boring	advmod
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					boring property	tree rules

Option 2

He had to kiss a boar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 kiss	mark
4	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boar	det
6	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kiss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He						tree rules
2	kiss	to-infinitive	He not said here	a boar					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Co-Agent

Option 3

Pigs are gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gross	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gross	cop
3	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pigs					gross property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Kissing a pig is so sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kissing	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sus	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pig	det
3	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kissing	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sus	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 sus	advmod
6	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	gerund		a pig					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Co-Agent
2	is	present	Kissing					suspect property	tree rules

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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