Test 12 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…

the lad sits up and says he slept ages, is that mad or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad · What happens: sit up, say, sleep, be · To what, where: ages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sits	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 says	cc
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slept	nsubj
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slept	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mad	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mad	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 mad	mark
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sits	parataxis
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 mad	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit up	present	the lad			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the lad not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sleep	past	lad	ages		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme
4	is	present			mad property	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.

The options

Option 1

yeah, "Where am I now?", mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 Where	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Where	punct
4	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Where	cop
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 Where	nsubj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 Where	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Where	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Where	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Where	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Where	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I				now	mate vocative; where property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he says "How long have I been out cold, I've slept ages", mate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
6	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 have	advmod
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 cold	nsubj
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 cold	cop
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 been	compound:prt
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 have	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 slept	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 slept	nsubj
15	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 slept	aux
16	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 ages	amod
17	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	parataxis
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 ages	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mate	punct
20	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ages	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present		long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	participle	I	cold property	tree rules
4	sleep in a quote	present · perfect	I		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, "I slept ages, bruv", mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 slept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 slept	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 slept	nsubj
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slept	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep in a quote	past	I	ages				bruv obl; mate vocative	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, "How long I have slept!", mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 slept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct
4	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 slept	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 slept	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slept	aux
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slept	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep in a quote	present · perfect	I					mate vocative; long property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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