Test 3 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beg…
So Rozennik fancies Bernez, right, even though he's skint?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rozennik · What happens: fancy, be · To what, where: Bernez
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1316 «Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beggar comes to the Christmas supper» 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 | _ | 3 fancies | advmod |
| 2 | Rozennik | Rozennik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fancies | nsubj |
| 3 | fancies | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Bernez | Bernez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fancies | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancies | punct |
| 6 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 3 fancies | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 skint | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 skint | advmod |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 skint | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 skint | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 skint | cop |
| 12 | skint | skint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fancies | parataxis |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | present | Rozennik | Bernez | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bernez=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Rozennik | skint property | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she's soft on him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 soft | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 soft | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soft | cop |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 soft | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | on him = he; soft property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, she likes him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 likes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 likes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 likes | nsubj |
| 4 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 likes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | she | him = he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, she's soft on him, but her brother Kenneth says no
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 soft | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 soft | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soft | cop |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 soft | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 says | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 12 | Kenneth | Kenneth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brother | appos |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soft | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 says | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | on him = he; soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | her brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
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.
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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