Test 2 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

Mate, how did the baby even know the ogre was coming?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ogre · What happens: know, come · To what, where: Mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 know	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ogre	det
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coming	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 coming	aux
12	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 know	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support		Mate					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	past · progressive	the ogre						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

he was told, yeah

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	3 told	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 told	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		he					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

his bones told him, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bones	nmod:poss
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	his bones		him = he			bruv vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he heard it all, innit

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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 it	det
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he	it					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	innit	infinitive	he not said here						tree rules

Option 4

he just guessed

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	3 guessed	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 guessed	advmod
3	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	he						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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