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Test 1 · Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not you…

«that magpie's got a personal vendetta, it only goes for me». What's really happening?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magpie · What happens: get, go, happen · To what, where: personal vendetta · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 458 «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» of the everyday 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: «that magpie's got a personal vendetta, it only goes for me».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 magpie	det
3	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 goes	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vendetta	det
7	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vendetta	amod
8	vendetta	vendetta	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 goes	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 goes	advmod
12	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 goes	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 goes	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	that magpie	a personal vendetta					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vendetta=Stimulus
2	go in a quote	present	magpie					for me	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: What's really happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happening	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happening	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happening	advmod
4	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present · progressive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It's after her shiny hairclip

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	6 hairclip	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hairclip	cop
3	after	after	ADP	_	6 hairclip	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hairclip	nmod:poss
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hairclip	amod
6	hairclip	hairclip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				after her shiny hairclip		tree rules

Option 2

Magpies pick one victim a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pick	nsubj
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 victim	nummod
4	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pick	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pick	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	present	Magpies	one victim			year		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's defending its nest from anyone on that path

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	3 defending	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 defending	aux
3	defending	defend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nest	nmod:poss
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 defending	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 defending	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 path	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 path	det
10	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	defend	present · progressive	It	its nest				from anyone	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent nest=Beneficiary from anyone=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It remembers she called it ugly and wants revenge

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 remembers	nsubj
2	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remembers	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 called	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wants	cc
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 remembers	conj
9	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	It						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	call	past	she	it				ugly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	want	present		revenge					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=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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