Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mo…

Innit, the kids singin' about the storks was well cheeky?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 992 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer: the mouse's adventures end in a wedding and a critics' complaint, then storks appear on a roof» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cheeky	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 singin	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 singin	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 singin	compound
5	singin	singin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Innit	appos
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 singin	punct
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 storks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 storks	det
9	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 singin	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cheeky	cop
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 cheeky	advmod
12	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 cheeky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Innit					cheeky, well property	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

Yeah, a bold girl began the song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 began	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	a bold girl	the song					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality

Option 2

Yeah, the boldest boy started the chant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 started	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 started	nsubj
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chant	det
8	chant	chant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 started	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the boldest boy	the chant					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chant=Eventuality

Option 3

Yeah, they sang loudly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 sang	advmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, one of the boldest boys started it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 started	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 boys	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boys	det
6	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 boys	amod
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 started	nsubj
8	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 started	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the boldest boys	one					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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