Test 10 · ★ · Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer…

Wicked, what did Michael the fox say about the valley?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wicked Michael · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 699 «Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer confesses, Blauvor is beheaded» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Michael	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Michael	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Michael	aux
5	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Michael	appos
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 valley	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 valley	det
11	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Wicked Michael					about the valley	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 · ✓ the right answer

things taste stale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taste	nsubj
2	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	things					stale property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

meat tastes sour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tastes	nsubj
2	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tastes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	meat					sour property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

it's stale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stale	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stale	cop
3	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					stale property	tree rules

Option 4

food is bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bad	cop
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	food					bad property	tree rules

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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