Test 2 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…

Wait, what did Grannonia say was the sickest thing ever?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Grannonia · What happens: wait, say, be · To what, where: sickest thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the Princess» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	sickest	sick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 thing	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Grannonia			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	is a	past		the sickest thing	ever	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

bread is the best thing in life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 life	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bread	the best thing		life			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

salt is the best thing in life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 life	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	salt	the best thing		life			tree rules

Option 3

gold is the best thing ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 thing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	gold	the best thing			ever		tree rules

Option 4

salt is nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nice	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 nice	cop
3	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	salt					nice property	tree rules

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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