Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

Bruv, why did the mayor diss the washer-woman's boy, what was his beef?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mayor, boy · What happens: do, diss, be · To what, where: boy, beef

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mayor	det
6	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 diss	nsubj
7	diss	diss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
9	washer	washer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 woman	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 washer	punct
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boy	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 woman	case
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 diss	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beef	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 beef	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beef	cop
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 beef	nmod:poss
18	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boy	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	diss	present	the mayor	the washer woman's boy		tree rules
3	is a	past	the washer woman's boy	mayor's beef		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

he said she was a useless washer

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 washer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 washer	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 washer	det
6	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 washer	amod
7	washer	washer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	she	a useless washer					tree rules

Option 2

he thought the mother was a lazy fool

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fool	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fool	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fool	det
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fool	amod
8	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the mother	a lazy fool					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he reckoned the mum was good for nothing

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckoned	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 nothing	case
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 reckoned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he					for nothing	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the mum					good property	tree rules

Option 4

he said she was lazy

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lazy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	cop
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					lazy property	tree rules

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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