Test 1 · ★ · Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a…

Oi, did you see Medio Pollito hopping off to Madrid like he owned the place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, Medio · What happens: see, hop off, own · To what, where: Madrid, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1871 «Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a pedlar sells the Caliph a scroll that the learned Selim finds is Latin» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hopping	nsubj
7	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Medio	flat
8	hopping	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 see	ccomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 hopping	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Madrid	case
11	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hopping	obl
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 owned	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 owned	nsubj
14	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hopping	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 place	det
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 owned	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	Oi			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hop off	gerund	Medio		Madrid	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to madrid=Destination
3	own	past	Medio	the place		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Theme

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

Nah, he's a good chick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 chick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chick	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chick	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chick	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chick	amod
7	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a good chick					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the proper cheeky little chick, he never helped nobody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 chick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chick	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chick	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chick	amod
5	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chick	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chick	amod
7	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 helped	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chick	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 helped	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 helped	advmod
11	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	past	the proper cheeky little chick		nobody				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Beneficiary

Option 3

Nah, he helped everyone out and was dead nice to them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 helped	obj
6	out	out	ADV	_	4 helped	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nice	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 nice	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nice	amod
10	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 helped	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 nice	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help out	past	he		everyone			out property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Beneficiary
2	is	past	he not said here		them = they			nice property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, cheeky chick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 cheeky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chick	amod
4	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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