Test 5 · ★★★ · Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Hu…
A comic has «CRASH!», «BANG!» and «WHOOSH!». What are these words called?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: comic, words · What happens: have, be, call · To what, where: CRASH, words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: A comic has «CRASH!», «BANG!» and «WHOOSH!».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 comic | det |
| 2 | comic | comic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 CRASH | punct |
| 5 | CRASH | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 CRASH | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 CRASH | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 BANG | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 BANG | punct |
| 10 | BANG | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | parataxis |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 BANG | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 BANG | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 WHOOSH | cc |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 WHOOSH | punct |
| 15 | WHOOSH | whoosh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 BANG | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 WHOOSH | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 WHOOSH | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a comic | CRASH | 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: What are these words called?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 words | acl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this words | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | this words not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Refrains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Refrains | refrain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Onomatopoeia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onomatopoeia | onomatopoeia | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Puns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puns | pun | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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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