Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages

Gran from the Black Country: "It's bostin' how yow cracked it, bab." ("Bostin'" means great; "bab" is a fond word for a child.) Tano: how do you say "I don't like"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Country, Bostin, bab, you, I · What happens: be, crack, mean, say, not like · To what, where: bostin, Country, fond word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 58 «Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages» 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: Gran from the Black Country: "It's bostin' how yow cracked it, bab."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Country	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 Country	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Country	det
4	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Country	compound
5	Country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 bostin	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bostin	punct
8	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bostin	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bostin	cop
10	bostin	bostin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Country	appos
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 bostin	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 cracked	advmod
13	yow	yow	ADV	_	14 cracked	advmod
14	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bostin	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cracked	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bab	punct
17	bab	bab	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bostin	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Country	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Country	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Country	bostin and bab					tree rules
2	crack in a quote	past	Country not said here	Country				yow property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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: ("Bostin'" means great; "bab" is a fond word for a child.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Bostin	punct
3	Bostin	Bostin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Bostin	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Bostin	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 word	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bab	punct
10	bab	bab	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	nsubj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bab	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 word	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 word	det
14	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 word	amod
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 child	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Bostin					great property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	bab	a fond word				for a child	tree rules

Sentence 3: Tano: how do you say "I don't like"?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tano	Tano	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tano	parataxis
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 like	advmod
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tano	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not like in a quote	present · do-support	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ne ti ama

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	ti	ti	X	_	1 Ne	conj
3	ama	ama	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ne	conj

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

Option 2

Ti ama ne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ti	ti	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ne	amod
2	ama	ama	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ne	compound
3	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ti ne ama

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ti	ti	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ama	amod
2	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ama	compound
3	ama	ama	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Ka ne ama

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ka	Ka	X	Foreign=Yes	3 ama	dep
2	ne	ne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ama	compound
3	ama	ama	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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