Test 6 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

so Pinkel's name was a jibe, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: name, jibe, Pinkel · What happens: be, innit, name · To what, where: jibe

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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 jibe	advmod
2	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Pinkel	case
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jibe	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 jibe	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jibe	det
7	jibe	jibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 jibe	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 jibe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Pinkel's name	a jibe	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	a jibe not said here		tree rules
3	name		Pinkel		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

aye, cos hens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 hens	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 aye	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 hens	case
4	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

naw, cos he milked the goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	naw	naw	INTJ	_	5 milked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 milked	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 milked	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 milked	nsubj
5	milked	milk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goat	det
7	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 milked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	milk	past	he	the goat					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

aye, cos he did the hens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 did	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hens	det
7	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	the hens					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Eventuality

Option 4

naw, just lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	naw	naw	INTJ	_	4 lazy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 naw	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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