Test 1 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the bo…

Mate, did you actually read the bit where the owl only knows one word?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, owl · What happens: read, know · To what, where: bit, one word

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1189 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the boy takes the white bird from the aviary, the enchanted water frees the captives, and the courtiers plot against the bird» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 read	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 read	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 read	advmod
6	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	obl:unmarked
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 knows	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 owl	det
11	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knows	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 knows	advmod
13	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bit	acl:relcl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 word	nummod
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knows	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past · do-support	you	the bit				actually property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	the owl	one word					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

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

Nah, I skimmed it, mate, but it's "cross" or something like that, innit, weird bit

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 skimmed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 skimmed	nsubj
4	skimmed	skim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 skimmed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skimmed	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cross	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 cross	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cross	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cross	cop
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 cross	punct
13	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skimmed	parataxis
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 cross	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 something	cc
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 cross	conj
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 something	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 innit	punct
20	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 skimmed	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bit	punct
22	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bit	amod
23	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skimmed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skim	past	I	it				mate vocative; weird bit obl	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	mate	cross					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it's "cross", innit, proper random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cross	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cross	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	cop
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 random	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 random	amod
12	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	cross and proper random					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, it's "hello", innit, proper weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 hello	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hello	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hello	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hello	cop
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hello	punct
6	hello	hello	INTJ	_	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hello	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hello	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hello	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weird	amod
12	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hello	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	infinitive							tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 4

Nah, it's "cross", mate, dead odd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 cross	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cross	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	cop
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 odd	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 odd	amod
12	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cross	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	cross and mate					tree rules

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