Test 14 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

who did the Jogi's tale, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tale, Jogi · What happens: do, innit, tell · To what, where: tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Jogi	det
4	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tale	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Jogi	case
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tale	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the Jogi's tale	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality
2	innit	infinitive	the Jogi's tale not said here		tree rules
3	tell		the Jogi		nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Major Campbell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Campbell	amod
2	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Andrew Lang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Andrew	flat

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

Option 3

The Editor, Andrew Lang, who wrote the preface

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Editor	det
2	Editor	Editor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Andrew	punct
4	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Editor	conj
5	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Andrew	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wrote	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wrote	nsubj
8	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 preface	det
10	preface	preface	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	the Editor and Andrew	the preface					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preface=Theme

Option 4

A Pushtoo-speaking Jogi from the hills of northern India

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Jogi	det
2	Pushtoo	Pushtoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 speaking	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Pushtoo	punct
4	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Jogi	amod
5	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 hills	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hills	det
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Jogi	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 India	case
10	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 India	amod
11	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hills	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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