Test 8 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé, part 2: Thakane…

ok but when dad says old enough to answer, is that like a total brush off

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: say, answer, be · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 says	cc
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 says	advmod
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	xcomp
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 answer	mark
9	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 old	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 that	cop
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 says	ccomp
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 brush	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 brush	det
15	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brush	amod
16	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 that	appos
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 brush	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	dad		old property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	dad not said here			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		that		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

nope he's saying she's too young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 saying	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saying	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	aux
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 young	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 young	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 young	advmod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	she					young property	tree rules

Option 2

nah he's just tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tired	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					tired property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah he's basically saying ask her yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 saying	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saying	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
4	basically	basically	ADV	_	5 saying	advmod
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 saying	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ask	iobj
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	he					basically property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	he not said here	yourself	her = she				tree rules

Option 4

yeah he's basically saying go away lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 saying	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saying	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
4	basically	basically	ADV	_	5 saying	advmod
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	ccomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 saying	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	he					basically property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go away	infinitive						away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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