Test 2 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…

Why is Tegumai's line «the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here» a joke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole dear quiet Tribe · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 85 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 line	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Tegumai	case
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	appos
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 here	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Tribe	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Tribe	amod
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Tribe	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct
11	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dear	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nice	punct
13	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kind	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clean	punct
15	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kind	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clean	punct
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Tribe	amod
18	Tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 here	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 here	cop
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 line	parataxis
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 here	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 joke	det
23	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 here	nsubj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						why property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	the whole dear quiet Tribe					here 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 · ← Mova's choice

The Tribe is noisy and armed, and it has just scared away every fish, which Tegumai finds very funny indeed

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tribe	det
2	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 noisy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 noisy	cop
4	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 armed	cc
6	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 noisy	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 noisy	conj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 scared	advmod
12	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 has	xcomp
13	away	away	ADV	_	10 has	advmod
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 fish	det
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 finds	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 finds	nsubj
18	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 finds	nsubj
19	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fish	acl:relcl
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 funny	advmod
21	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 finds	xcomp
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	19 finds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Tribe		noisy property	tree rules
2	be		the Tribe not said here			tree rules
3	have away	present	Tribe	every fish	away, scared property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
4	find	present	every fish		funny, indeed property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Pictures are useful but need a drum to explain them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 useful	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 useful	cop
3	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 need	cc
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 useful	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drum	det
7	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 explain	mark
9	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 need	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 explain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pictures		useful property	tree rules
2	need	present	Pictures not said here	a drum		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drum=Theme
3	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	Pictures not said here	Pictures = picture		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 3

Nobody is kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nobody					kind property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Tribe is noisy, armed and has just frightened every fish away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tribe	det
2	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 noisy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 noisy	cop
4	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 armed	punct
6	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 noisy	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 frightened	cc
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 frightened	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 frightened	advmod
10	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 noisy	conj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 fish	det
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 frightened	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	10 frightened	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Tribe		noisy property	tree rules
2	be		the Tribe not said here			tree rules
3	frighten away	present · perfect	the Tribe not said here	every fish	away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fish=Experiencer

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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