Test 13 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

so the swans are still weird, yeah, and they talk at night?

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

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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	_	6 weird	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swans	det
3	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 weird	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weird	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 weird	advmod
6	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	12 talk	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 talk	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 talk	nsubj
12	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weird	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 talk	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 weird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the swans				still	weird property	tree rules
2	talk	present	swans = swan				night		vn talk-37.5 «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

yep, in their own lingo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 lingo	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lingo	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lingo	amod
6	lingo	lingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yep	obl

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

Option 2

yes, in a secret language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 language	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 language	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 language	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 language	det
5	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 language	amod
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

yep, they chat in a strange old language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 chat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chat	nsubj
4	chat	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 language	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 language	det
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 language	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 language	amod
9	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	present	they			a strange old language			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yep, but only to crows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 crows	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 crows	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 crows	case
6	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 yep	conj

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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