Test 4 · ★★★ · Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Hu…

«Kipling can't spell, 'curtiosity' isn't even a word» What would you say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kipling, curtiosity, you · What happens: not spell, not be, say · To what, where: word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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 spell	punct
2	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spell	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spell	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 spell	advmod
5	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 word	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 curtiosity	punct
8	curtiosity	curtiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 word	nsubj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 curtiosity	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 word	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 word	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 word	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 word	det
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spell	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 word	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 say	obj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 say	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 say	nsubj
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spell	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 spell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not spell in a quote	can	Kipling		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	present	curtiosity	a word	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	would	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

He really could not spell

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	5 spell	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 spell	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 spell	advmod
5	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spell	could	He						vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It was the right spelling in 1902

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	5 spelling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spelling	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spelling	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spelling	amod
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1902	case
7	1902	1902	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 spelling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the right spelling		1902			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He made the mistake on purpose to sound like a little child

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mistake	det
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sound	mark
8	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	advcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 child	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 child	amod
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	the mistake		purpose			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product
2	sound	to-infinitive	He not said here					like a little child	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

It is the American spelling of curiosity

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	5 spelling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spelling	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spelling	det
4	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spelling	amod
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 curiosity	case
7	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spelling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the American spelling				of curiosity	tree rules

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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