Test 8 · ★ · Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa…

Who told the hunter to ask for the mirror, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hunter · What happens: tell, ask · To what, where: hunter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hunter	det
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 mirror	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mirror	det
9	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mirror	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past		the hunter					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent hunter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	the hunter not said here					for the mirror and bruv	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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

the wise old wasp, Zengi-mizi, who lived in the rush basket

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wasp	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wasp	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wasp	amod
4	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Zengi	punct
6	Zengi	Zengi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wasp	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 mizi	punct
8	mizi	mizi	X	Foreign=Yes	6 Zengi	dep
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 basket	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 basket	det
14	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 basket	compound
15	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the wise old wasp			the rush basket			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in basket=Location

Option 2

the python king himself, Insato, who said the mirror was his

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 king	compound
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 king	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Insato	punct
6	Insato	Insato	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 king	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mirror	det
11	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 his	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mirror	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the python king king	the mirror					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mirror=Topic
2	is a	past	the mirror not said here	Insato					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the wasp, Zengi-mizi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wasp	det
2	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mizi	punct
4	Zengi	Zengi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mizi	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Zengi	punct
6	mizi	mizi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wasp	conj

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

Option 4

the python, Insato

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 python	det
2	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Insato	punct
4	Insato	Insato	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 python	appos

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

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