Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy v…

Yo, the pig actually talked back to him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pig · What happens: talk back · To what, where: him

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 898 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Metal Pig, part 109: the boy visits the Florence churches, then is shoved around by his mother and finds a kind home» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 talked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pig	det
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 talked	advmod
6	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 talked	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talked	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 talked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk back	past	the pig		him = he			actually property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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

Yeah, proper mint, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 mint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mint	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mint	amod
4	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mint	conj

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

Option 2

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, it was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, it was dead fun, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fun	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fun	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fun	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fun	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fun	amod
6	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fun	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	dead fun and bruv					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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