Test 15 · ★ · Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the h…

Who whispered "Oh, here is the turtle" when he turned up, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: whisper, be, turn up, innit · To what, where: turtle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 1218 «Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the hare brings fire home, the turtle goes to war for his bride» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 whispered	nsubj
2	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 turtle	punct
4	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 turtle	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Oh	punct
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 Oh	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 turtle	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 turtle	det
9	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whispered	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 turtle	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 turned	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turned	nsubj
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whispered	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 turned	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 turned	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whispered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		the turtle	tree rules
3	turn up	past	he		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	innit	infinitive	he not said here		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 mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The grandmother from the other hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grandmother	det
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 hut	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hut	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hut	amod
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grandmother	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The husband

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The girl's little brother who was hiding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 girl	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hiding	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hiding	aux
8	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 brother	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive	the girl's little brother						vn concealment-16-1 «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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