Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Watch, part 11: a magic watch m…

wait, why did the caliph's dude keep yelling mu mu

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, keep, yell · To what, where: dude, mu mu

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1874 «Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Watch, part 11: a magic watch makes Jenik rich, then his wife steals it and leaves him alone» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 caliph	det
6	caliph	caliph	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dude	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 caliph	case
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
10	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keep	xcomp
11	mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mu	compound
12	mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yelling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the caliph's dude	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dude=Eventuality
3	keep	present			tree rules
4	yell speech: express	gerund		mu mu	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mu=Topic

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

he was copying the owl's cry

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	3 copying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 copying	aux
3	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 owl	det
5	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cry	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 owl	case
7	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past · progressive	he	the owl's cry					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
2	cry		the owl						nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

it was the stork's sound, bro

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	6 sound	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sound	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stork	det
4	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 stork	case
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the stork's sound and bro					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it's what the stork cried, dude

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 what	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stork	det
5	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dude	punct
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it					dude vocative	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the stork						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

it's what the stork cried when the caliph turned him into a bird in the courtyard, dude

The tree, 18 words

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 what	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stork	det
5	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 turned	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 caliph	det
9	caliph	caliph	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 bird	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bird	det
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 courtyard	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 courtyard	det
17	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dude	punct
19	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it		dude vocative	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the stork			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	past	the caliph	stork	into a bird; in the courtyard	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient into bird=Recipient in courtyard=Topic

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