Test 7 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…

Real talk, what did the nurse call the boatman when she told him to shush?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nurse · What happens: call, tell, shush · To what, where: Real talk, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1526 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked nurse plans to swap her daughter for the Princess» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 call	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 call	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nurse	det
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	nsubj
8	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boatman	det
10	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 told	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 call	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 shush	mark
16	shush	shush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	the nurse	Real talk		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme boatman=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	nurse		him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	shush not said to happen	to-infinitive	nurse not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

stupid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

stupid old fool of a boatman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fool	amod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fool	amod
3	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 boatman	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boatman	det
6	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fool	nmod

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

Option 4

stupid man, be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 man	amod
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quiet	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 quiet	cop
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	stupid man					quiet 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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