Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the far…

What was the whistle meant to do, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whistle · What happens: be, do

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 meant	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 meant	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 whistle	det
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meant	nsubj
5	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 meant	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 meant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the whistle					mean property	tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the whistle not said here					mate vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

bring back the dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 bring	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dead	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	imperative	you not said here	the dead					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dead=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

wake the dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dead	det
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	imperative	you not said here	the dead					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dead=Patient

Option 3

call the sheep home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 call	obj
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 call	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here		the sheep				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sheep=Recipient

Option 4

bring the dead back to life again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 back	det
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 back	amod
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bring	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bring	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	1 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	the dead back		life	again		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to life=Destination

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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