Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tes…

Was the rhyme the twins said mad clever?

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

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2020 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children back» 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 rhyme	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rhyme	det
3	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 twins	det
5	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clever	amod
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the rhyme					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the twins					clever property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Yeah, dead daft for grown men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 daft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 daft	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daft	amod
4	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 men	case
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 daft	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, proper clever for babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clever	amod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 babies	case
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clever	obl

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

Option 3

Nah, it was just some random nonsense about acorns and oaks that anybody could make up

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 nonsense	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nonsense	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nonsense	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 nonsense	advmod
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 nonsense	det
7	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nonsense	amod
8	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 acorns	case
10	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nonsense	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 oaks	cc
12	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 acorns	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 make	nsubj
14	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 make	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 oaks	acl:relcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 make	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	some random nonsense				about acorns and oaks	tree rules
2	make up	could	oaks						vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, proper clever for babies, the Wise Man said it was the cleverest rhyme he had heard

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clever	amod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 babies	case
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clever	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Man	det
9	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Man	amod
10	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rhyme	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rhyme	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rhyme	det
15	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 rhyme	amod
16	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	aux
19	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 rhyme	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Wise Man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the cleverest rhyme	tree rules
3	hear	past · perfect	Man	the cleverest rhyme not said here	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rhyme=Stimulus

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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