Test 3 · ★ · d'Aulnoy Fairy Tales, Graciosa and Percinet, part 37: the…

Bruv, what did the King even call her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: call · To what, where: Bruv · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1540 «d'Aulnoy Fairy Tales, Graciosa and Percinet, part 37: the Wicked King's ruin and Grumbly's crown-filled casks» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 call	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 call	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 call	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 call	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 call	advmod
8	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 call	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	the King	Bruv				Bruv vocative	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme she=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

He called her a fat cow, a total disgrace, bruv.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cow	amod
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 disgrace	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 disgrace	det
9	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 disgrace	amod
10	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 disgrace	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	He		her = she				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 2

Nothing, he didn't say.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	Nothing						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Just "you", innit.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	6 innit	advmod
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 you	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 innit	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 you	punct
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	infinitive	you						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Little fright, little toad, like a proper insult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fright	amod
2	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 toad	punct
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toad	amod
5	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fright	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 insult	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 insult	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 insult	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 insult	amod
10	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fright	conj

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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