Test 11 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

So the ogre was basically tricked the whole way, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: trick · To what, where: ogre

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 tricked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ogre	det
3	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tricked	aux:pass
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 tricked	advmod
6	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricked	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tricked	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tricked	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tricked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive		the ogre				the whole way obl:unmarked; basically property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, proper out-played

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 played	punct
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 played	advmod
4	out	out	ADV	_	6 played	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 out	punct
6	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle						out, properly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

nah, he was proper clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 clever	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	cop
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clever	amod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					clever property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the ogre actually won in the end though, he ate the dad

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 won	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ogre	det
4	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 won	advmod
6	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ate	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	obl
10	though	though	ADV	_	6 won	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ate	nsubj
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dad	det
15	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the ogre				in the end	actually, though property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in end=Eventuality
2	eat	past	ogre	the dad					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Patient

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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