Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches…

did the Seagull say yes to the soldier, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Seagull · What happens: say · To what, where: soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1902 «Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches a crowd and the Princess laughs at last» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Seagull	det
3	Seagull	seagull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 say	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 soldier	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 say	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Seagull		the soldier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Topic to soldier=Recipient

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

yeah, but only with a sealed purse, and she laughed at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 purse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 purse	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 purse	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 purse	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 purse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 purse	det
7	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 purse	amod
8	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laughed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laughed	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laughed	nsubj
12	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 purse	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seal	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	laugh	past	she					at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, but only with a sealed purse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 purse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 purse	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 purse	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 purse	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 purse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 purse	det
7	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 purse	amod
8	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seal	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she said no, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 mate	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 no	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she					mate vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, but only with a gold ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 ring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ring	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 ring	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 ring	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 ring	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ring	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	compound
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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