Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

Bruv, what did the parrot call him, a total mug?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: parrot · What happens: call · To what, where: Bruv · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1947 «English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king promises his son to a giant, and the boy escapes with the giant's daughter» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 call	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 call	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parrot	det
6	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bruv	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 call	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mug	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mug	det
11	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mug	amod
12	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	the parrot	Bruv					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Result

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

a dim geezer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 geezer	det
2	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 geezer	amod
3	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a mug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mug	det
2	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a foolish man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a div

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 div	det
2	div	div	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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