Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl g…

And the gentleman just says it's only the shadow, lol, what a nob?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gentleman, it · What happens: say, be · To what, where: shadow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1944 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl guesses the imp's name, and the sillies begin their troubles» 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 says	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gentleman	det
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 says	advmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shadow	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shadow	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 shadow	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shadow	det
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lol	punct
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 shadow	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nob	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 nob	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 nob	det
16	nob	nob	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shadow	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the gentleman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	the shadow and a nob					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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the moon's still up there, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moon	det
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 moon	case
6	still	still	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 obviously	punct
10	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	8 there	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he's right, the moon's a shadow, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 right	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 right	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shadow	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moon	det
8	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shadow	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shadow	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shadow	det
11	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 right	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shadow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					right property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the moon	a shadow and bruv					tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 obviously	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, he's wrong, it's gone, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wrong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrong	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gone	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	cop
9	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wrong	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 wrong	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					wrong property	tree rules
2	is	present	it					gone property	tree rules

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