Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel rev…

Was the cook gonna say no to the gruel at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cook · What happens: be, say · To what, where: cook, no, gruel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1950 «English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel reveals the girl in rushes, and her father learns how much she loved him» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cook	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
4	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	5 say	dep
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 say	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 gruel	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gruel	det
9	gruel	gruel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 first	case
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the cook					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	the cook	no	the gruel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to gruel=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 · ← Mova's choice

no, she would

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 would	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 would	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yes, she wouldn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 would	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 would	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 would	advmod

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

Option 3

no, she was sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 sure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sure	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	cop
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					sure property	tree rules

Option 4

yes, she did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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