Test 10 · ★ · pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes s…

What did Maurice say he drinks, like, anything at all?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Maurice · What happens: say, drink · To what, where: anything, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1304 «pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes set fish, feet and folk dancing» 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	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drinks	nsubj
6	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anything	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 anything	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 drinks	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 anything	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Maurice						tree rules
2	drink	present	Maurice	anything		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

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

Whisky, ale, or any strong wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whisky	Whisky	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ale	punct
3	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Whisky	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wine	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 wine	cc
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 wine	det
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wine	amod
8	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Whisky	conj

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

Option 2

Whisky and cider too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whisky	Whisky	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cider	cc
3	cider	cider	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Whisky	conj
4	too	too	ADV	_	1 Whisky	advmod

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

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

Anything, barring raw water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 barring	punct
3	barring	bar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Anything	acl
4	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bar	gerund		raw water					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer water=Theme

Option 4

Whatever is poured for him, but never the cold raw water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 poured	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poured	aux:pass
3	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poured	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 water	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 water	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 water	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
11	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	present · passive		Whatever				for him = he; the cold raw water obl	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for he=Beneficiary

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