Test 7 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: th…

Fr, what did the old tunny tell her to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: old tunny, her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1175 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: the prince wins back Desiree, and the idle girl turns into a fish under the sea» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Fr	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tunny	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tunny	amod
7	tunny	tunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	Fr	the old tunny		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tunny=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present	Fr		her = she	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fr not said here			vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cheer up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheer	cheer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Cheer	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer up	imperative	you not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Swim away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Sing loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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