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Test 7 · ★★★ · Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense

A boy says «I'm gooder at football than him». Like whom in the book has he forgotten good English?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: say, be, have, forget · To what, where: gooder, football, book, good English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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 boy says «I'm gooder at football than him».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 gooder	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 gooder	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gooder	cop
7	gooder	gooder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 football	case
9	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gooder	nmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 football	nmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 gooder	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	a boy = boy	gooder		football than boy			tree rules

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: Like whom in the book has he forgotten good English?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 book	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obl
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forgotten	nsubj
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 has	xcomp
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 English	amod
10	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 forgotten	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present				the book			tree rules
2	forget	participle	boy	good English					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Hatter, saying «writing-desk»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hatter	det
2	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saying	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hatter	punct
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 desk	punct
6	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 desk	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 writing	punct
8	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 desk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	the Hatter	writing desk					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent desk=Topic

Option 2

The Mock Turtle, saying «porpoise»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Turtle	det
2	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saying	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 porpoise	punct
7	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saying	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 porpoise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	the Mock Turtle	porpoise					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent porpoise=Topic

Option 3

The Mouse, saying «the driest thing I know»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mouse	punct
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	driest	dry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	acl:relcl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	the Mouse	the driest thing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	the Mouse = mouse	the driest thing not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Alice, saying «curiouser and curiouser»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alice	punct
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 curiouser	punct
5	curiouser	curious	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 saying	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 curiouser	cc
7	curiouser	curious	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 curiouser	conj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 curiouser	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Alice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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