Test 1 · ★★★ · Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Hu…

«why does he keep saying the same Dingo line, is he lazy or what» What is the better answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: keep, say, be · To what, where: same Dingo line, better answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 keep	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 line	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 line	amod
9	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 line	compound
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lazy	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lazy	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lazy	nsubj
14	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	parataxis
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lazy	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 answer	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 answer	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 answer	det
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 answer	amod
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 what	acl:relcl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present · do-support	he			tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	he not said here	the same Dingo line		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent line=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	he		lazy property	tree rules
4	be speech: assert	present		the better answer		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.

The options

Option 1

The printer copied the same line by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 printer	det
2	printer	printer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copied	nsubj
3	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 line	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 line	amod
6	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copied	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 mistake	case
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past	the printer	the same line				by mistake	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme by mistake=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a refrain: listeners wait for it and join in

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	4 refrain	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 refrain	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 refrain	det
4	refrain	refrain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 wait	punct
6	listeners	listener	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wait	nsubj
7	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 refrain	parataxis
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wait	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 join	cc
11	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wait	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	11 join	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a refrain		tree rules
2	wait	present	listeners		for refrain	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	join in	present	listeners not said here			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

He forgot that he had already written it on the page before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 written	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 written	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 written	aux
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 written	advmod
7	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 forgot	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 written	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 page	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 page	det
11	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 written	obl
12	before	before	ADV	_	7 written	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	He						tree rules
2	write	past · perfect	he	it		the page		before property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on page=Destination

Option 4

It is a spell that makes the Dingo run

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	4 spell	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spell	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spell	det
4	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spell	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 run	det
8	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 run	compound
9	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a spell					tree rules
2	make	present	a spell	the Dingo run					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset run=Product

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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