Test 1 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

Yo, why'd the sultan's missus send her slaves on donkeys, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: missus · What happens: send, innit · To what, where: slaves

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 send	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 send	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	9 send	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sultan	det
6	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 missus	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sultan	case
8	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 send	nsubj
9	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 slaves	nmod:poss
11	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 send	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 donkeys	case
13	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 send	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 send	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	infinitive	the sultan's missus	missus's slaves				on donkeys	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
2	innit	infinitive	the sultan's missus not said here						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 · ✓ the right answer

To tell her dad about the gazelle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 gazelle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gazelle	det
7	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			her dad			about the gazelle	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient about gazelle=Topic

Option 2

To tell her father about deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	iobj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 deer	case
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			her father			about deer	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent father=Recipient about deer=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To give her dad a bit of news about that gazelle thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 news	case
8	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 thing	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 thing	det
11	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	compound
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		a bit of news	her dad			about that gazelle thing	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient bit=Theme

Option 4

To tell her dad all about that gazelle dying and the crowd crying in the street

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 gazelle	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 gazelle	det
8	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obl
9	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 gazelle	acl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crowd	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crowd	det
12	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	conj
13	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 crowd	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 street	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 street	det
16	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		her dad		about that gazelle; all property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient about gazelle=Topic
2	die	gerund	that gazelle not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	cry speech: express	gerund	the crowd not said here		the street		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=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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