Test 1 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es…

Mate, so the dove basically said grab a big stick, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dove · What happens: say, grab · To what, where: big stick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dove	det
5	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
6	basically	basically	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	conj
8	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stick	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stick	amod
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grab	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grab	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 grab	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dove					basically property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grab	infinitive		a big stick					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme

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

Yeah, a good club to beat the whole crew of the ship at once

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 club	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 club	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 club	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 club	amod
5	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 beat	mark
7	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 club	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crew	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crew	amod
10	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beat	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ship	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ship	det
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crew	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	to-infinitive		the whole crew of the ship					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crew=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, a soft pillow for the crew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 pillow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pillow	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pillow	det
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pillow	amod
5	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 crew	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crew	det
8	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pillow	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the dove said nothing about a stick, you got it wrong, mate, it was a bell

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dove	det
4	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 said	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 got	obj
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mate	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wrong	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bell	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bell	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bell	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bell	det
21	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dove	nothing	about a stick	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	get	past	you	dove		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary mate=Theme
3	is a	past	dove	a bell		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a good club to beat the crew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 club	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 club	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 club	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 club	amod
5	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 beat	mark
7	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 club	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crew	det
9	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	to-infinitive		the crew					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crew=Theme

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