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Test 4 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

Ciara, «what's the craic (fun)?»: «Badger called it 'grub', so he's common.» What should we say today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciara, Badger, we · What happens: be, call, say · To what, where: fun, craic · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 71 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» 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

Sentence 1: Ciara, «what's the craic (fun)?»: «Badger called it 'grub', so he's common.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ciara	Ciara	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 called	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fun	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 fun	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 fun	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fun	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 craic	det
7	craic	craic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fun	nsubj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 fun	punct
9	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ciara	appos
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 fun	punct
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ciara	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Ciara	punct
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
15	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 called	nsubj
16	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	obj
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 grub	punct
19	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 called	xcomp
20	',	',	PUNCT	_	19 grub	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 common	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 common	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 common	cop
24	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 called	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 common	punct
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Ciara	fun					tree rules
2	call speech: assert in a quote	past	Ciara	craic					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present	Badger					common 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.

Sentence 2: What should we say today?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl:unmarked
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	we				today		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Say «food»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 food	punct
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 food	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	food					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Every dialect is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 dialect	det
2	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Grub is common

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Only posh people say food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 posh	advmod
2	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	posh people	food					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent food=Topic

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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