Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

Real talk, did Peter join the mocking squad or not?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: join · To what, where: mocking squad

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 join	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 join	aux
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 join	nsubj
6	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 squad	det
8	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 squad	compound
9	squad	squad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 join	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 not	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 squad	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 join	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	past · do-support	Peter	the mocking squad					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squad=Patient

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

Yes, he joined in gladly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 joined	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 joined	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 joined	nsubj
4	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 joined	compound:prt
6	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	4 joined	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join in	past	he					gladly property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

No, he said it was a shame and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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 shame	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shame	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shame	det
8	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 shame	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		a shame	tree rules
3	leave	participle			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, he said it was a shame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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 shame	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shame	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shame	det
8	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

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

Option 4

Yes, he sang the rhyme

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rhyme	det
6	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he	the rhyme					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rhyme=Theme

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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