Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

bro, Melinette warned Grumedan about being a bit of a dick, what's the big threat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Melinette, bit · What happens: warn, be · To what, where: Grumedan, big threat

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1880 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 17: Grumedan dazzles Potentilla with flowers, frogs and pearls, and Narcissus answers with a nightingale» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warned	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 warned	nsubj
4	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 warned	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 bit	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bit	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warned	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 dick	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dick	det
12	dick	dick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 threat	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 threat	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 threat	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 threat	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 threat	amod
18	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 warned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	Melinette		Grumedan	bro vocative	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grumedan=Recipient
2	is	gerund				about a bit and the big threat; of a dick	tree rules
3	is a	present	a bit and the big threat	the big threat			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

a thousand years in the nick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 years	det
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 nick	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nick	det
6	nick	nick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 years	nmod

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

Option 2

the nick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nick	det
2	nick	nick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a thousand years locked up in a tree with no wand and no frogs, bruv

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thousand	det
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 locked	obl:unmarked
4	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 locked	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 locked	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wand	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 wand	det
11	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 frogs	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 frogs	det
14	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wand	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bruv	punct
16	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock up	participle				a tree with no wand and no frogs and bruv	year		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

a fine, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fine	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fine	punct
4	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 fine	discourse

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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