Test 3 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…
ngl, what did the king say after the second call?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, king · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1844 «Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden in the dog and the cow, the Queens' plots» 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 | ngl | ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ngl | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 call | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 call | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 call | amod |
| 11 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | ngl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the king | after the second call | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
why do you keep calling me now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 keep | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 calling | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 keep | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · do-support | you | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | you not said here | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
Option 2
stop calling me every time you feel a little lonely in the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 stop | xcomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 calling | obj |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 calling | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 feel | nsubj |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lonely | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feel | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 calling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | call | gerund | you not said here | me | the palace | time | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||
| 3 | feel | present | you | every time not said here | lonely property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme |
Option 3
don't call me again unless the whole palace is on fire, got it
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 call | advmod |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 call | advmod |
| 6 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 12 fire | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 palace | amod |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fire | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fire | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | again | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the whole palace | fire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | past | you not said here | palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
don't call me unless you need me
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 call | advmod |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 7 need | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 need | nsubj |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 need | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | need a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
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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