Test 11 · ★★★ · Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense

★★★ Using the Mock Turtle's code (Reeling = reading, Drawling = drawing, Mystery = history), what would «Fizzicks and Kemistree» probably mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, Fizzicks, Mock Turtle · What happens: use, mean, code · To what, where: code

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ★	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Turtle	det
6	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Turtle	compound
7	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 code	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Turtle	case
9	code	code	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Using	obj
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 Reeling	punct
11	Reeling	reeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 code	appos
12	=	=	SYM	_	13 reading	punct
13	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Reeling	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Drawling	punct
15	Drawling	drawling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Reeling	conj
16	=	=	SYM	_	17 drawing	punct
17	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Reeling	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Mystery	punct
19	Mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Reeling	conj
20	=	=	SYM	_	21 history	punct
21	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Reeling	conj
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 Reeling	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mean	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 mean	obj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 mean	aux
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 Fizzicks	punct
27	Fizzicks	Fizzicks	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 mean	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Kemistree	cc
29	Kemistree	Kemistree	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Fizzicks	conj
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 Fizzicks	punct
31	probably	probably	ADV	_	32 mean	advmod
32	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 code	acl:relcl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	gerund	★ ★ ★ not said here	the Mock Turtle's code		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent code=Patient
2	mean	would	Fizzicks and Kemistree	the Mock Turtle's code	probably property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	code		the Mock Turtle			nom code «communication transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Fizzy drinks and chimneys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drinks	amod
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 chimneys	cc
4	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drinks	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Physics and chemistry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Physics	physic	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 chemistry	cc
3	chemistry	chemistry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Physics	conj

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

Option 3

Fishing and keeping trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 keeping	cc
3	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Fishing	conj
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		trees					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

Option 4

Fixing and kitchens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fixing	fix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 kitchens	cc
3	kitchens	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fixing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	gerund							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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