Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71…

So why did they oil their gobs, like proper rappers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: gob

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1747 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71: the soldier falls out of the window, sails in a paper boat, is swallowed by a fish, and melts in the stove» 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 why	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 why	advcl:relcl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gobs	nsubj
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gobs	compound
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gobs	nmod:poss
7	gobs	gob	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rappers	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 rappers	case
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rappers	amod
11	rappers	rapper	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gobs	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gob		they						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

To talk nicer for the princess, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 talk	mark
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 talk	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 princess	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 princess	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	to-infinitive						for the princess and bruv; nice property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To sing, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sing	mark
2	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cos they wanted to sound smooth, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	co	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sound	mark
5	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sound	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 wanted	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cos						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sound not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cos not said here					smooth property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To talk smoother for the wooing, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 talk	mark
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	smoother	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 talk	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 wooing	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wooing	det
6	wooing	wooing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wooing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	to-infinitive						for the wooing and bruv; smooth property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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