Test 6 · ★ · Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth…

dude, what did the griffin say when he flew off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: do, say, fly off · To what, where: griffin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1647 «Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth reaches the moat round the church» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 dude	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 griffin	det
6	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 flew	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 flew	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	dude	the griffin	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent griffin=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	dude		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly off	past	dude		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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

come back if you need me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 come	advmod
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 need	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 come	advcl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

call me if you need me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 call	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 need	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 call	advcl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here		me				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	need a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme

Option 3

bye, see you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bye	bye	INTJ	_	3 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bye	punct
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 4

farewell, friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	3 friend	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 farewell	punct
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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