Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab trick…

what's a plaudit, is that like a stupid word???

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stupid word, plaudit · What happens: be · To what, where: plaudit

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1826 «Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab tricks the crane, then Laili jumps into a fish» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 plaudit	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plaudit	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plaudit	det
4	plaudit	plaudit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 word	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 plaudit	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 word	cop
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 word	nsubj
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 word	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 word	det
10	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	amod
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	???	???	PUNCT	_	11 word	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a stupid word	a plaudit					tree rules
2	is	present	a plaudit					like a stupid word	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

nah it means applause, like clapping for someone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 means	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	applause	applause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clapping	punct
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 clapping	mark
7	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 means	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 someone	case
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 clapping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	applause					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent applause=Topic
2	clap	gerund						for someone	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nah it means applause, like clapping for someone who did something really good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 means	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	applause	applause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clapping	punct
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 clapping	mark
7	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 means	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 someone	case
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 clapping	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 someone	acl:relcl
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 did	obj
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 good	advmod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	applause		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent applause=Topic
2	clap	gerund			for someone	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past		something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah it means a rude word, kinda

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 means	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct
8	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	3 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	a rude word				kinda property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 4

nah it's a type of fish, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 type	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 type	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 type	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 type	det
5	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fish	case
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 type	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 type	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a type and mate				of fish	tree rules

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