Test 7 · ★ · Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse…

what was the turnkey yapping about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: turnkey · What happens: be, yap

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 991 «Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse bursts in and tells of her jail escape» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 turnkey	det
4	turnkey	turnkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	yapping	yap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 turnkey	acl
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 yapping	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the turnkey						tree rules
2	yap	gerund	the turnkey not said here					about property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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

his prisoners, one who said dumb thoughtless stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 prisoners	nmod:poss
2	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 said	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stuff	amod
8	thoughtless	thoughtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stuff	amod
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	his prisoners	one					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic

Option 2

his cows and the price of the bread at market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cows	nmod:poss
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 price	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 price	det
5	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cows	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bread	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bread	det
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 price	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 market	case
10	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bread	nmod

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

Option 3

his prisoners and the man who said dumb thoughtless stuff all the time at night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 prisoners	nmod:poss
2	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 man	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prisoners	conj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
8	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuff	amod
9	thoughtless	thoughtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuff	amod
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 time	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl:unmarked
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the man	dumb thoughtless stuff			night; time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic

Option 4

his prisoners, one who said dumb thoughtless stuff about the king and the soup

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 prisoners	nmod:poss
2	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 said	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stuff	amod
8	thoughtless	thoughtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stuff	amod
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuff	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 soup	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 soup	det
15	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 king	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	his prisoners	one					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stuff=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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