Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…
Wait, what lingo did they reckon he was spitting?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, lingo · What happens: wait, reckon, spit
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reckon | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 reckon | obj |
| 4 | lingo | lingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reckon | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reckon | aux |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reckon | nsubj |
| 7 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spitting | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spitting | aux |
| 10 | spitting | spit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 reckon | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reckon | past · do-support | lingo | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spit | past · progressive | lingo | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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
Swedish, bruv, nobody could follow it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | Swedish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bruv | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Swedish | punct |
| 3 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 follow | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bruv | punct |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 follow | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 follow | aux |
| 7 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 follow | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | could | Swedish bruv | it | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Russian, mate, total gibberish to them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mate | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Russian | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gibberish | punct |
| 5 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gibberish | amod |
| 6 | gibberish | gibberish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gibberish | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Dutch, I reckon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | dutch | INTJ | _ | 4 reckon | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dutch | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | I | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Russian, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mate | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Russian | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | 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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