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Test 2 · ★★★ · Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Hu…

Mia writes «the silly, slippery, slithering snake». Which of Kipling's tricks is she using?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, Kipling · What happens: write, slither, use, trick

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: Mia writes «the silly, slippery, slithering snake».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 writes	nsubj
2	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 snake	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snake	det
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 snake	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slippery	punct
7	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 silly	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slithering	punct
9	slithering	slither	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 snake	amod
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 writes	ccomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 snake	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Mia						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slither in a quote	gerund							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Which of Kipling's tricks is she using?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 using	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 tricks	case
3	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tricks	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Kipling	case
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Which	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 using	aux
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 using	nsubj
8	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 using	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · progressive	Mia						vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
2	trick		Kipling						nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A pun

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

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

Option 2

A refrain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 refrain	det
2	refrain	refrain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A clipped word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
2	clipped	clip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 word	amod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clip	participle							vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Alliteration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alliteration	alliteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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