Test 14 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician…

Innit, what was Otter munching before his nap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: be, munch · To what, where: Otter

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1583 «Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician's last trick, then Sigurd's birth and Regin's tale of the gold» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 munching	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Otter	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Otter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Otter	cop
5	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Innit	conj
6	munching	munch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 nap	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nap	nmod:poss
9	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 munching	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 munching	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Innit and Otter	Otter					tree rules
2	munch	gerund	Innit and Otter				before Otter's nap		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

A trout, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 trout	det
2	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trout	conj

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

Option 2

A big fat salmon from the river, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 salmon	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 salmon	amod
3	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 salmon	compound
4	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 salmon	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 salmon	conj

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

Option 3

Three salmon and some bread, innit, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 salmon	nummod
2	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bread	cc
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bread	det
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 salmon	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 salmon	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 salmon	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A salmon, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 salmon	det
2	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 salmon	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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