Test 12 · ★ · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…
Did Ciccu tell her the whole fairy story?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: tell · To what, where: whole fairy story, her · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 2 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 story | compound |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | Ciccu | the whole fairy story | her = she | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic |
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
yeah, every bit of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bit | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, the first part
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 part | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 part | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 part | amod |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nah, just some of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 some | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 some | advmod |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 some | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah, every bit of it, though he left out the horn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 10 left | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bit | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 yeah | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bit | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 left | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 left | nsubj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 left | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horn | det |
| 13 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave out | past | he | the horn | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme |
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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