Test 1 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu, part 63: the princess drops…

Bruv, did the talking horse actually talk or is that just proper daft?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: do, be · To what, where: talking horse

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1674 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu, part 63: the princess drops her veil and ring, and Ciccu must fetch the veil» 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	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
5	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horse	compound
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 talk	advmod
8	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 daft	cc
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 daft	cop
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 daft	mark
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 daft	advmod
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 daft	amod
14	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bruv	the talking horse				talk obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2	is	present	Bruv not said here					daft property	tree rules

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

It talked, innit, the whole way round, proper clever stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 talked	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	parataxis
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 way	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stuff	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stuff	amod
12	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stuff	amod
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	It						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, it just neighed like a normal horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 neighed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 neighed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 neighed	advmod
5	neighed	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 horse	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
8	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neighed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neigh	past	it					like a normal horse	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It talked, innit, the whole way round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 talked	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	parataxis
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	It						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, bruv, it never talked, it was just a normal horse sayin' nothing at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 bruv	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talked	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talked	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 talked	advmod
7	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sayin	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sayin	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sayin	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	15 sayin	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sayin	det
13	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sayin	amod
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sayin	compound
15	sayin	sayin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talked	parataxis
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 sayin	punct
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 talked	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	past	bruv	bruv					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	is a	past	bruv	a normal horse sayin					tree rules

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