Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, p…

lowkey the tortoise was a total chatterbox, right? what happened when he tried to talk?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tortoise, lowkey · What happens: be, happen, try, talk · To what, where: total chatterbox

This is test 6 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 happened	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tortoise	det
3	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chatterbox	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chatterbox	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chatterbox	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chatterbox	amod
7	chatterbox	chatterbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lowkey	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	12 happened	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 happened	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happened	nsubj
12	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 tried	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tried	nsubj
15	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 happened	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 talk	mark
17	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tried	xcomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the tortoise	a total chatterbox	tree rules
2	happen	past	lowkey		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	past	lowkey		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	lowkey not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

he sang loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 2

fell from the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 sky	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past				the sky			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

let go of the stick and fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 let	xcomp
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stick	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 let	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	you not said here	of the stick	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of stick=Initial_Location
3	fall	past	you not said here		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

opened his mouth to speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mouth	nmod:poss
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 opened	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 speak	mark
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 opened	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past		his mouth					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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