Test 9 · ★★★ · Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense

Is «I eat what I see» the same as «I see what I eat»?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: be, see, eat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	cop
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 same	csubj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 see	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	conj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 same	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 see	mark
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 same	advcl
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 eat	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
17	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 see	ccomp
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 same	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I	eat property	tree rules
2	see in a quote	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	see in a quote	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	eat in a quote	present	I		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

No: the first means you eat everything you see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 means	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 first	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 eat	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	the first		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	present	you	everything	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
3	see	present	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes: the same words always mean the same thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 mean	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 words	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mean	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 mean	advmod
7	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the same words	the same thing				always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

Option 3

No: the second means you eat everything you see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 means	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 second	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 eat	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	the second		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	present	you	everything	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
3	see	present	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes: both mean you look at your food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 mean	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 look	discourse
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 food	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 food	nmod:poss
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	both						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	look	present	you					at your food	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at food=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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