Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the siste…

The pitch-and-hot-stones thing, that's proper gross, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: that · What happens: be, innit

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1178 «Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the sisters free their husbands, and the queen's chariot crashes» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
2	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thing	cc
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 and	punct
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stones	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hot	punct
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thing	compound
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gross	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 gross	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gross	cop
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gross	amod
14	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 gross	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					gross property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, mate, minging but it worked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 minging	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 minging	punct
5	minging	ming	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 worked	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 worked	nsubj
8	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 minging	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ming	gerund							tree rules
2	work	past	mate						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, mate, it was pretty clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 clever	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clever	cop
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	8 clever	advmod
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	mate					clever, pretty property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, proper gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gross	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gross	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gross	amod
4	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, mate, it was rank but fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 rank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rank	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rank	cop
7	rank	rank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 fine	cc
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rank	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	mate					rank property	tree rules
2	be		mate 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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