Test 4 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is sw…

Ngl, what did Kabo tell the girls about Pivi?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kabo · What happens: tell · To what, where: girls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1231 «Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is swallowed by a shell-fish, and is punished» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girls	det
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 Pivi	case
10	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 girls	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Kabo		the girls			Ngl vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient girl=Topic

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

That the shell-fish swallowed him whole in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fish	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shell	det
3	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 shell	punct
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallowed	nsubj
6	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swallowed	obj
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swallowed	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	that shell fish	him = he		the sea		whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

That a shark took him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 shark	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shark	det
3	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	past	that shark	him = he				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That the shell-fish swallowed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fish	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shell	det
3	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 shell	punct
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallowed	nsubj
6	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swallowed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	that shell fish	him = he					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

That a crab pinched him in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 crab	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crab	det
3	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pinched	nsubj
4	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pinched	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pinched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	that crab	him = he		the sea			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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