Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell we…

Oi, so them fish could actually chat and whistle, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: chat, whistle, innit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1883 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell well, Celandine comes to the valley, Featherhead ignores her» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chat	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 chat	advmod
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chat	nsubj
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 them	nmod:unmarked
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 chat	aux
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 chat	advmod
8	chat	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Oi	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 whistle	cc
10	whistle	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 chat	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 chat	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	could	Oi	actually property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	whistle	infinitive	Oi not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	innit	infinitive	Oi not said here		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

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, they couldn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 could	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 could	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 could	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they could talk and whistle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 talk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 whistle	cc
7	whistle	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	could	they						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	whistle	present	they not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, they could sing and dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sing	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sing	aux
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dance	cc
7	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	could	they						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dance	infinitive	they not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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