Test 10 · ★ · The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Makoma, part…

Did the people dig his name or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people, his · What happens: dig, name · To what, where: name

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1135 «The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Makoma, part 1: a strong boy beats crocodiles and a giant» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 people	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dig	nsubj
4	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dig	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dig	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	present	the people	his name					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent name=Theme
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they cheered his name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cheered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cheered	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheered	nsubj
4	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	they	his name					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus name=Experiencer
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Yeah, they sang it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they	it					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 3

Nope, they forgot it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	nsubj
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	they	it					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, they cheered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cheered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cheered	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheered	nsubj
4	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	they						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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