Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, Father Grumbler, part 15: Grumbler shows off a…

Did he say thanks to the Holy Man or anything?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: say · To what, where: thanks, Holy Man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1214 «Fairy Book, Father Grumbler, part 15: Grumbler shows off a magic cock, and the innkeepers plot to steal it» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 Man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Man	det
7	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	8 Man	compound
8	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thanks	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 anything	cc
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 Man	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	he	thanks	the Holy Man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic to man=Recipient

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

Yeah, he said ta, bro.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ta	ta	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	vocative
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he					bro vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, not really.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 really	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he didn't say thanks, mate, he was dead rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thanks	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rude	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rude	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rude	cop
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rude	amod
14	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	he	thanks and mate					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic
2	is	past	he					rude property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he just walked off, mate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 walked	advmod
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 walked	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	vocative
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk off	past	he					mate vocative	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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