Test 2 · ★ · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

Bruv, what made Pulcinella laugh when he was gutted?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pulcinella · What happens: make, laugh, gut · To what, where: Pulcinella

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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 made	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Pulcinella	Pulcinella	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 gutted	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gutted	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gutted	aux:pass
10	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 laugh	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past		Pulcinella	Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	Pulcinella not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gut	past · passive		Pulcinella		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

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

Columbine kissing a stranger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Columbine	Columbine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kissing	nsubj
2	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kissing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	gerund	Columbine	a stranger					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Co-Agent

Option 2

Columbine whispering she would marry the Turk tomorrow morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Columbine	Columbine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 whispering	nsubj
2	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marry	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 marry	aux
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 whispering	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 morning	det
7	Turk	Turk	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 morning	compound
8	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 morning	compound
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marry	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	gerund	Columbine						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry	would	Columbine				morning		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

the Turk's pipe and a sudden bell from the tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Turk	det
2	Turk	Turk	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pipe	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Turk	case
4	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bell	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bell	det
7	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bell	amod
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pipe	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 tower	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tower	det
11	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bell	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Columbine saying he was in love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Columbine	Columbine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saying	nsubj
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 love	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 love	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 love	case
6	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Columbine						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Columbine			love			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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