Test 5 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince…

Yo, the directions were proper confusing, weren't they?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: directions · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: they

This is test 5 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 confusing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 directions	det
4	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 confusing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 confusing	cop
6	proper	properly	ADV	_	7 confusing	advmod
7	confusing	confusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 confusing	punct
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 they	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 they	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 confusing	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 confusing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the directions					confusing, properly property	tree rules
2	not is a	past	the directions not said here	they					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

Yeah, the map said four hundred leagues north of Caucasus but nobody knew where that was, mate

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 map	det
4	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 leagues	nummod
8	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
9	north	north	ADV	_	8 leagues	advmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Caucasus	case
11	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 north	obl
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 knew	cc
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 was	advmod
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 was	nsubj
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 knew	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mate	punct
19	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the map	hundred leagues	mate vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent league=Topic
2	know	past	nobody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	past	that			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Four hundred leagues north of Caucasus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 leagues	nummod
3	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	north	north	ADV	_	3 leagues	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Caucasus	case
6	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 north	obl

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

Option 3

North of the big mountains, no joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 mountains	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mountains	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mountains	amod
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 North	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 joke	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 North	appos

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

Option 4

Yeah, totally muddled, no joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 muddled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 muddled	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 muddled	advmod
4	muddled	muddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 joke	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 muddled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	muddle	participle		no joke				totally property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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