Test 1 · ★ · Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa…

Oi, who even was the giant, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: be, innit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1137 «Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa frees a python king and is promised a reward» 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	Oi	Oi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 innit	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 giant	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 giant	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	7 giant	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 giant	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Oi	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Oi					giant property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	Oi						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 · ← Mova's choice

some proper ancient monster from the mountains who nobody dares to cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 monster	nsubj
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 monster	amod
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 monster	amod
4	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountains	det
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 monster	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 dares	nsubj
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 dares	nsubj
10	dares	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 monster	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cross	mark
12	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dares	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	present	proper ancient monster from the mountains						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cross	to-infinitive	proper ancient monster from the mountains not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a proper huge dude who talks like thunder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dude	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dude	amod
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dude	amod
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 talks	nsubj
6	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dude	acl:relcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 thunder	case
8	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	a proper huge dude					like thunder	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a massive dude who lives up in the clouds and grumbles all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dude	det
2	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dude	amod
3	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grumbles	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dude	acl:relcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 lives	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 clouds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clouds	det
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lives	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lives	cc
11	grumbles	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grumbles	obj
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 grumbles	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live up	present	a massive dude			the clouds			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location
2	grumble speech: other	present	a massive dude				day	long property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a huge fella who's dead tall and loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fella	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fella	amod
3	fella	fella	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tall	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tall	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	amod
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 loud	cc
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a huge fella					tall property	tree rules
2	be		a huge fella not said here						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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