Test 2 · ★ · Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the re…

Dude, what'd the chief's wife whisper to him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chief · What happens: whisper

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1271 «Iktomi tales, The Big Red Eagle: the avenger shoots the red eagle and wins the princess» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 'd	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 'd	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 'd	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chief	det
6	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whisper	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 chief	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whisper	compound
9	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 'd	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 'd	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 'd	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper		the chief						nom whisper «communication transitive»: poss=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

he's ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ugly	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ugly	cop
3	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he's not handsome after all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 handsome	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 handsome	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 handsome	advmod
4	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 handsome	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	he				after all	handsome property	tree rules

Option 3

he's kinda plain, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 plain	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plain	cop
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 plain	advmod
4	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 honestly	punct
6	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 plain	advmod

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

Option 4

he's not cute after all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cute	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cute	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cute	advmod
4	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 cute	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	he				after all	cute property	tree rules

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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