Test 11 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé, part 2: Thakane…

so did koane ever say sorry for the whole mess??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: koane · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1224 «Folk Tales, The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé, part 2: Thakane is taken to the ogre, and the animals ask why» 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	_	5 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	koane	koane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 mess	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mess	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mess	amod
10	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sorry	obl
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	past · do-support	koane				ever	sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

yeah he said sorry later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	xcomp
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 said	advmod

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

Option 2

nope never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	2 never	discourse
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 3

nope he just kept drinking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	drink	gerund	he not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the text doesn't say he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	the text						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	text						vn act-114-1 «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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