Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

What does "Pooh" mean when the lord-in-waiting says it, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pooh, lord · What happens: mean, say · To what, where: waiting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Pooh	punct
4	Pooh	Pooh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mean	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Pooh	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 says	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lord	det
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 waiting	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 in	punct
13	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lord	appos
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	Pooh						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the lord	waiting				bruv obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

Option 2

"Pardon, I did not hear"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pardon	punct
2	Pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Pardon	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 hear	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hear	advmod
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear in a quote	past · do-support	Pardon						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

"A rude word meaning the lord thinks the bird is worthless"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thinks	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 word	det
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 word	amod
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thinks	nsubj
5	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 word	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lord	det
7	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meaning	obj
8	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worthless	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 worthless	cop
12	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thinks	ccomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	gerund	a rude word not said here	the lord		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Topic
2	think speech: other in a quote	present	a rude word			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the bird		worthless property	tree rules

Option 4

"Something rude about the bird"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 rude	punct
2	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 rude	nsubj
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rude	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 rude	punct

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

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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