Test 4 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

Mate, what did the Black Bird tell him, like the exact vibe?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Black Bird · What happens: tell · To what, where: Mate, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Bird	det
6	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bird	compound
7	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 vibe	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 vibe	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vibe	det
13	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 vibe	amod
14	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the Black Bird	Mate	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

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

Stay in bed till noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 bed	case
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl
4	till	till	ADP	_	5 noon	case
5	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			bed	noon		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location

Option 2

Go home, you lame kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 you	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Go	obl
5	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kid	amod
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	you				lame kid obl; home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Gold is everything, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everything	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 everything	cop
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everything	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		everything					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Your chance is opposite your nature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 chance	nmod:poss
2	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opposite	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 opposite	cop
4	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nature	nmod:poss
6	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opposite	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your chance					opposite property	tree rules
2	chance		Your						nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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