Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, p…

slay, so what's the big lesson about talking too much?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, big lesson · What happens: slay, be, talk · To what, where: big lesson, much

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1835 «Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, part 19: the cat wins back the ring, and the Brahman's wife sets out for the king» 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	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lesson	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 lesson	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 lesson	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lesson	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lesson	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lesson	amod
8	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 slay	obl
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 talking	mark
10	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 lesson	acl
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 talking	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 slay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	slay	imperative	you not said here		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		the big lesson	tree rules
3	talk	gerund	the big lesson not said here	much	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent much=Patient

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

talkers are always rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	talkers	talker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rich	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 rich	advmod
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	talkers					always, rich property	tree rules

Option 2

speak only when you have been asked to speak twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	7 asked	advmod
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 asked	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 asked	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 asked	aux:pass
7	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 speak	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 speak	mark
9	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	xcomp
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present · perfect · passive		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		twice property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it can bring you to grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bring	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bring	aux
3	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 bring	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 grief	case
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	can	it	you		grief			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to grief=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

it makes the king happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	the king				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material king=Product

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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