Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow…

that pigeon was dead clever innit, what did he say crows digest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pigeon, he, crows · What happens: be, say, digest · To what, where: dead clever innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1855 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow is caught and plucked» 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 pigeon	det
2	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 innit	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 innit	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 innit	amod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 innit	amod
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 say	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 innit	conj
12	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 digest	nsubj
13	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	that pigeon	dead clever innit	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	he	dead clever innit	tree rules
3	digest	infinitive	crows		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

anything except a lamp-wick, quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	except	except	ADP	_	6 wick	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wick	det
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wick	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 lamp	punct
6	wick	wick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 anything	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 quick	punct
8	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 anything	conj

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

Option 2

even the lamp-wick, which is very hard, quick as a flash, honestly

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	even	even	ADV	_	5 wick	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wick	det
3	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wick	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 lamp	punct
5	wick	wick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hard	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hard	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hard	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wick	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quick	punct
12	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hard	conj
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 flash	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 flash	det
15	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quick	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 honestly	punct
17	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the lamp wick					hard, honestly property	tree rules
2	be		the lamp wick not said here					as a flash	tree rules

Option 3

anything but the cook's lamp wick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 wick	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wick	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cook	case
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wick	compound
7	wick	wick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 anything	conj

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

Option 4

anything at all except a lamp-wick, and very quick too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 anything	nmod
4	except	except	ADP	_	8 wick	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wick	det
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wick	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 lamp	punct
8	wick	wick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 anything	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quick	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 quick	cc
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 quick	advmod
12	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 anything	conj
13	too	too	ADV	_	12 quick	advmod

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

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