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Test 3 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince…

So the ambassadors were laughing, yeah? Like, why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ambassadors · What happens: laugh

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1888 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince signs up for the Ice Mountain quest, is wrecked, and frees a crew of enchanted sailors» 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

Sentence 1: So the ambassadors were laughing, yeah?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 laughing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ambassadors	det
3	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laughing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughing	aux
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laughing	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 laughing	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 laughing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	the ambassadors						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: Like, why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	3 why	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cos he signed up as a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 signed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 signed	nsubj
3	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 signed	compound:prt
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 joke	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 signed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign up	past	Cos					as a joke	vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as joke=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he wrote just Mannikin on the list

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 wrote	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 Mannikin	advmod
5	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 list	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 list	det
8	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he	Mannikin		the list			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mannikin=Theme on list=Destination

Option 3

Cos his name was Mannikin on the form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 name	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Mannikin	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Mannikin	cop
5	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 form	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 form	det
8	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Mannikin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Mannikin		the form		cos his name	tree rules
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Cos he wrote Mannikin on the list and said he'd beat the ambassadors all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 wrote	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
4	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 list	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 list	det
7	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 beat	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 beat	aux
12	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ambassadors	det
14	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 beat	obj
15	all	all	ADV	_	12 beat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	he	Mannikin		the list			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mannikin=Theme on list=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	beat	would	Mannikin	the ambassadors				all property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ambassador=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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