Test 7 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin fin…

wait, the fish was yelling about war but it sounded like gibberish, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fish · What happens: wait, yell, sound

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1275 «Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin finds his eyes again, then seven friends set out to make war and the first warriors drop away» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 yelling	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yelling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yelling	aux
6	yelling	yell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 war	case
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yelling	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sounded	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sounded	nsubj
11	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 gibberish	case
13	gibberish	gibberish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sounded	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	yell speech: express	past · progressive	the fish	about war	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about war=Topic
3	sound	past	fish	like gibberish	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

yes, it said "shu hi pi" over and over loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 pi	punct
6	shu	shu	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pi	compound
7	hi	hi	ADJ	_	8 pi	amod
8	pi	pi	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 pi	punct
10	over	over	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 over	cc
12	over	over	ADV	_	10 over	conj
13	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	10 over	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yes, it said "shu hi pi"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 pi	punct
6	shu	shu	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pi	compound
7	hi	hi	ADJ	_	8 pi	amod
8	pi	pi	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 pi	punct

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

no, it was clearly saying "we come to make war"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 saying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saying	cop
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	6 saying	advmod
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saying	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	xcomp
12	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	it		clearly, say property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	present	we			tree rules
3	make in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	war		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product

Option 4

yes, it said "hsss tchu"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hsss	punct
6	hsss	hsss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	tchu	tchu	X	Foreign=Yes	6 hsss	dep
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hsss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it	hsss					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hsss=Topic

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