Test 9 · ★ · Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse…

so the turnkey said it's like soup of sausage skewers, but he meant?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: turnkey, he · What happens: say, be, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 turnkey	det
3	turnkey	turnkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 soup	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 soup	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 soup	case
8	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 skewers	case
10	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skewers	compound
11	skewers	skewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 soup	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 meant	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 meant	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 meant	nsubj
15	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the turnkey		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	turnkey	like soup; of sausage skewers	tree rules
3	mean	past	he		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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

the soup was far too salty to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soup	det
2	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 salty	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 salty	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 salty	advmod
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 salty	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the soup					far, salty property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	the soup not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the man could lose his neck over it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 neck	nmod:poss
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	could	the man	man's neck		neck			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Eventuality

Option 3

the man could lose his neck over it and his whole family's home too

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 neck	nmod:poss
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lose	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 home	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 family	nmod:poss
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 family	amod
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 home	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 family	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	conj
15	too	too	ADV	_	4 lose	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	could	the man	man's neck		neck			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the turnkey cooked it for supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 turnkey	det
2	turnkey	turnkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooked	nsubj
3	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cooked	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 supper	case
6	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	the turnkey	it				for supper	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for supper=Beneficiary

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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