Test 5 · ★ · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom…

Did the Counsellor sort it or what, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Counsellor · What happens: sort · To what, where: it

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Counsellor	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Counsellor	det
3	Counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nsubj
4	sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sort	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 sort	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 what	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sort	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	present	the Counsellor	it					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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, he was a bit of a cheeky fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bit	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 fox	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fox	det
9	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fox	amod
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a bit				of a cheeky fox	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he dodged the deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dodged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dodged	nsubj
4	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dodged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	past	he	the deal					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent deal=Location

Option 3

Yeah, he was a proper cheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 cheat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cheat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cheat	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cheat	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cheat	amod
7	cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a proper cheat					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he was a bit of a cheeky fox and he never paid up

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bit	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 fox	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fox	det
9	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fox	amod
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 paid	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 paid	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 paid	advmod
14	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bit	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 paid	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a bit				of a cheeky fox	tree rules
2	not pay up	past	fox						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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