Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

why'd the guy in the castle say he's cool with the bench?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guy · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 782 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 58: on the second night, half-men fall down the chimney and play nine-pins» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 say	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 guy	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guy	det
4	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 castle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guy	nmod
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cool	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cool	cop
11	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	ccomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 bench	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bench	det
14	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cool	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the guy in the castle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	guy					with the bench; cool 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.

The options

Option 1

cos he sat there first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	cos			there		first property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos it's his, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 innit	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 innit	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 innit	nmod:poss
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is a	present	it	his innit					tree rules

Option 3

cos it's mine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mine	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mine	cop
4	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	1 cos	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is a	present	it	mine					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

cos he sat on it, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	cos			it		bro vocative	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location

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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