Test 10 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmo…

So what did the middle dove reckon, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: middle dove · What happens: reckon, innit

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1154 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmother drowns the princess and disguises her own daughter as the bride» 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 reckon	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reckon	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dove	det
5	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dove	amod
6	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reckon	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the middle dove						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	innit	infinitive	the middle dove not said here						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

Keep on cluck, cluck, cluck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 cluck	case
3	cluck	cluck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cluck	punct
5	cluck	cluck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cluck	punct
7	cluck	cluck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	cluck	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on cluck=Location
2	cluck	infinitive	you not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cluck	infinitive	you not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Sing out every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sing	s	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Sing	compound:prt
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	s out	gerund					day		tree rules

Option 3

Cluck loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cluck	cluck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Cluck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cluck	imperative	you not said here					loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Just say "dirty creatures" forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 creatures	punct
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creatures	amod
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 creatures	punct
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	dirty creatures				forever property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent creature=Topic

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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