Test 11 · ★ · Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince…
So the crow basically says hurry up and dry her tears?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crow · What happens: say, hurry up, dry · To what, where: tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1455 «Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince dives into the river as a crab» 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 says | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 4 | basically | basically | ADV | _ | 5 says | advmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 hurry | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dry | cc |
| 9 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hurry | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tears | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dry | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the crow | basically property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hurry up | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | dry | infinitive | crow's tears | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result |
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, get on with it, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 get | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 get | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get on | imperative | you not said here | with it; mate vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
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 3
Nah, go back to sleep, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 go | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sleep | case |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bruv | punct |
| 8 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sleep | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | imperative | you not said here | to sleep and bruv result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sleep=Result |
Option 4
Nah, just wait
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wait | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 wait | advmod |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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