Test 1 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

Ay mate, what did his own mum call him, like, proper rude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: own mum · What happens: call · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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	Ay	ay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mate	amod
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 call	aux
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mum	amod
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 call	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rude	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 rude	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rude	amod
15	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 call	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past · do-support	his own mum		him = he			Ay mate vocative	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

a hideous dwarf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dwarf	det
2	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dwarf	amod
3	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a dwarf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dwarf	det
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

a freak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 freak	det
2	freak	freak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a hideous goblin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 goblin	det
2	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goblin	amod
3	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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