Test 1 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel…

So the brother just chopped the pumpkin and her hand off, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: chop off, innit · To what, where: pumpkin

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1309 «Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel brother cuts off his sister's hand, and a prince finds her crying in a tree» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 chopped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 chopped	advmod
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pumpkin	det
7	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hand	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pumpkin	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	5 chopped	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chopped	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past	the brother	the pumpkin and her hand					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pumpkin=Patient
2	innit	infinitive	the brother not said here						tree rules

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

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, proper nasty, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nasty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nasty	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nasty	amod
4	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nasty	vocative

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

Option 3

Yeah, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, it was well nasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 nasty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nasty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nasty	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 nasty	advmod
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					nasty, well 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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