Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…

Bro, what's the parrot's only human line?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: human line

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 line	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 line	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 line	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parrot	det
6	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 line	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 line	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 line	advmod
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 line	amod
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bro and human line	human line					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

"Let us go home"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	us					tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

"Hello, dear"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
2	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	4 dear	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"Now let us be men."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 men	cop
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	us			now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	is a in a quote	infinitive		men					tree rules

Option 4

"Now let us dance"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	us			now		tree rules
2	dance in a quote	infinitive	us not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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