Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow and the Carter: the bird'…

bruv the sparrow kept saying not wretch enough yet, what's a wretch

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sparrow, bruv · What happens: keep, say, be · To what, where: bruv, wretch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 732 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow and the Carter: the bird's revenge, then the twelve dancing princesses begin» 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl:unmarked
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrow	det
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 wretch	advmod
7	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saying	obj
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 saying	advmod
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 saying	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wretch	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 wretch	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wretch	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wretch	det
14	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the sparrow	bruv			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	bruv not said here	wretch	yet	enough property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wretch=Topic
3	is a	present		a wretch			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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a miserable unlucky person, like a right loser

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 person	det
2	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 person	amod
3	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 person	amod
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loser	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 loser	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 loser	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 loser	amod
9	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 person	conj

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

Option 2

a miserable, unlucky, wretched person who gets everything wrong all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
2	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 miserable	punct
4	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 unlucky	punct
6	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 person	amod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 person	acl:relcl
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 gets	obj
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gets	xcomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	a miserable unlucky wretched person	everything			time	wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

Option 3

a sort of cursed bird, like a pest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sort	det
2	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bird	case
4	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pest	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 pest	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pest	det
9	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	participle							vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sort			cursed bird					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

a really horrible sort of person, like a total loser who never wins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sort	det
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 horrible	advmod
3	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sort	amod
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 person	case
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 loser	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 loser	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 loser	det
10	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 loser	amod
11	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	conj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wins	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 wins	advmod
14	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 loser	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not win	present	a total loser						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sort			person					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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