Test 11 · ★ · Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114:…

ok real talk, what's the Moon's whole deal here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ok real talk · What happens: be, deal · To what, where: ok real talk

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» 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	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 deal	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 deal	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 deal	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Moon	case
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deal	amod
11	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	appos
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 deal	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		ok real talk					tree rules
2	deal		ok real talk			here			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 sings songs

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 sings	nsubj
2	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	He	songs					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He tells tales of human life

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 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tells	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tales	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	He	tales of human life					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
2	tell		human life						nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

He watches over the sea

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 watches	nsubj
2	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present	He			the sea			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Location

Option 4

He warns of the storms

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 warns	nsubj
2	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 storms	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 storms	det
5	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 warns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	He					of the storms	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent of storm=Topic

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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