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Test 5 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing

A cartoon says a kenning is "a poem about a bloke called Ken". Fix it.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, kenning, you · What happens: say, be, call, fix · To what, where: poem, bloke, kenning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 47 «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the English 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

Sentence 1: A cartoon says a kenning is "a poem about a bloke called Ken".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kenning	det
5	kenning	kenning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poem	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 poem	cop
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 poem	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 poem	det
9	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 bloke	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bloke	det
12	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poem	nmod
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bloke	acl
14	Ken	Ken	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Ken	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a cartoon						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	a kenning	a poem				about a bloke	tree rules
3	call in a quote	participle		a bloke not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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.

Sentence 2: Fix it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fix	obj
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	kenning					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is a poem of exactly ten lines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poem	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poem	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poem	det
4	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 lines	case
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 ten	advmod
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 lines	nummod
8	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poem	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a poem				of ten lines	tree rules

Option 2

It is any poem written by a Viking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poem	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poem	cop
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 poem	det
4	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 poem	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Viking	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Viking	det
8	Viking	viking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	any poem					tree rules
2	write	participle		any poem not said here				by a Viking	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It names a thing in two-word phrases

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 names	nsubj
2	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thing	det
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 names	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 phrases	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 word	nummod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 phrases	compound
9	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 names	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present	It	a thing		word phrases			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 4

The cartoon is right about Ken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 Ken	case
6	Ken	Ken	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cartoon					about Ken; right property	tree rules

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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