Test 11 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

Did the owl do its "Hoo! hoo!" in his face, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: owl, face

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 owl	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owl	det
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Hoo	nmod:poss
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Hoo	punct
7	Hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 hoo	punct
9	hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	parataxis
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 hoo	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hoo	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 face	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 face	nmod:poss
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 what	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the owl		his face			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

Nah, it flew away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	it					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, right by his ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 ear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ear	punct
3	right	right	ADV	_	6 ear	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 ear	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ear	nmod:poss
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, right in his face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 face	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct
3	right	right	ADV	_	6 face	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 face	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, right in his face, then it flew off into the dark jungle

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 face	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct
3	right	right	ADV	_	6 face	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 face	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 flew	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 flew	compound:prt
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 jungle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 jungle	det
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 jungle	amod
15	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	his face				then	into the dark jungle result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into jungle=Result

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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