Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princ…
so he's not a massive fan of big talkers, is he?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: massive fan, he
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1417 «Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, part 4: the Prince meets the old Fairy in a cave and she talks on about noses» 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 | _ | 7 fan | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fan | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fan | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fan | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fan | det |
| 6 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fan | amod |
| 7 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 he | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 talkers | case |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 talkers | amod |
| 10 | talkers | talker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fan | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fan | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 he | cop |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 he | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | he | a massive fan | of big talkers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | he | 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
nah, he reckons people should stop yapping
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckons | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckons | nsubj |
| 4 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stop | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | aux |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reckons | ccomp |
| 8 | yapping | yap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | he | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stop | should | people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | yap | gerund | people not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
nah, he reckons people should stop yapping and listen properly to what others actually say
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckons | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckons | nsubj |
| 4 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | advcl |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stop | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | aux |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | yapping | yap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stop | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 listen | cc |
| 10 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stop | conj |
| 11 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 10 listen | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 listen | obl |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 say | nsubj |
| 15 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 16 say | advmod |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | he | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stop | should | people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | yap | gerund | people not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | listen | infinitive | people not said here | properly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | others | actually property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yeah, he thinks they're great, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 thinks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | csubj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 great | nsubj |
| 6 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | cop |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 great | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | he | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | they | mate vocative; great property | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, he reckons they're just noisy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckons | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckons | nsubj |
| 4 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 noisy | nsubj |
| 6 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 noisy | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 noisy | advmod |
| 8 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reckons | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | he | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | they | noisy 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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