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Test 4 · ★★★ · Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense

A friend writes a poem: «Hickory dickory dog, the mouse ran up the frog». What has she written?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, mouse · What happens: write, run up · To what, where: poem, frog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: A friend writes a poem: «Hickory dickory dog, the mouse ran up the frog».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 poem	det
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 dog	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 dog	punct
8	Hickory	Hickory	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dog	compound
9	dickory	dickory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mouse	det
13	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dog	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 ran	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 frog	det
17	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	a friend	a poem					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent poem=Recipient clause=Topic
2	run up in a quote	past	the mouse	the frog					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=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: What has she written?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 written	obj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 written	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 written	nsubj
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 written	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present · perfect	mouse						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A parody of a famous nursery rhyme

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 parody	det
2	parody	parody	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 rhyme	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rhyme	det
5	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rhyme	amod
6	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rhyme	compound
7	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parody	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	parody			a famous nursery rhyme					nom parody «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A pun on two words that sound the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pun	det
2	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 words	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 words	nummod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pun	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sound	nsubj
7	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 words	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sound	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	two words	the same					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme

Option 3

A malapropism about the antipodes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 malapropism	det
2	malapropism	malapropism	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 antipodes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 antipodes	det
5	antipodes	antipode	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 malapropism	nmod

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

Option 4

A riddle that has no answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 riddle	det
2	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 riddle	acl:relcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 answer	det
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a riddle	no answer					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=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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