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Test 6 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…

Bruv, the Lizard's a proper cynic, innit? What did he do when the Student was crying?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lizard, you, Bruv, Student · What happens: be, innit, do, cry · To what, where: proper cynic

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» 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

Sentence 1: Bruv, the Lizard's a proper cynic, innit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 innit	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cynic	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lizard	det
4	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cynic	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cynic	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cynic	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cynic	amod
8	cynic	cynic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Lizard	a proper cynic					tree rules
2	innit	imperative	you not said here					Bruv vocative	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.

Sentence 2: What did he do when the Student was crying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 crying	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Student	det
7	Student	Student	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 crying	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 crying	aux
9	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 do	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Bruv						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	past · progressive	the Student						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

He laughed outright and mocked him loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	outright	outright	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mocked	cc
5	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mocked	obj
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 mocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	He					outright property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mock	past	He not said here	him = he				loudly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

He laughed outright at the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	outright	outright	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 boy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	He					at the boy; outright property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He called him soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	He		him = he			soft property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He laughed outright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	outright	outright	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	He					outright property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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