Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

Lol the bandmaster's book, did anyone actually read it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: book · What happens: do, read · To what, where: anyone, book

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 book	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bandmaster	det
3	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 book	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 bandmaster	case
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 book	punct
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 did	obj
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 read	advmod
10	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 anyone	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 read	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the bandmaster's book	anyone					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Eventuality
2	read	past		book				actually property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

Few read it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Few	few	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	Few	it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone said so, but no one read it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 read	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 read	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 read	nsubj
8	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Everyone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	read	past	no one	it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Many praised it, few understood it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 praised	nsubj
2	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 praised	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 understood	punct
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 understood	nsubj
6	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 praised	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 understood	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past	Many	it					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	understand	past	few	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone said so, but few understood it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 understood	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 understood	cc
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 understood	nsubj
7	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 understood	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Everyone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	understand	past	few	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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