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Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill…

Proper gutted, the miller thought she meant a puppy. Wot did he actually say yes to?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: miller, Wot · What happens: gut, think, mean, do, say · To what, where: puppy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1702 «Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor miller strikes a bargain with a water spirit» 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

Sentence 1: Proper gutted, the miller thought she meant a puppy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 gutted	advmod
2	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thought	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gutted	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 miller	det
5	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 meant	nsubj
8	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 puppy	det
10	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meant	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle	the miller not said here					properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	the miller						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	mean	past	miller	a puppy					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=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.

Sentence 2: Wot did he actually say yes to?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 say	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	5 say	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Wot						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	Wot					actually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

the youngest thing in the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	nmod

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

Option 2

the first thing he saw at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl

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

Option 3

the youngest thing in the house, not the puppy his wife wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wanted	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 puppy	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 puppy	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 puppy	det
10	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 puppy	nmod
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the youngest thing in the house and the puppy puppy's wife						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

whatever the nixy chose to take from the youngest room in his house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 chose	obj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nixy	det
3	nixy	nixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chose	nsubj
4	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chose	xcomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
9	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 room	amod
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 house	nmod:poss
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	the nixy	whatever					tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	the nixy not said here			the youngest room		in nixy's house	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from room=Initial_Location

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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