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Test 8 · ★ · Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice…

★★ The Rat's «a little wet» and a British dad's «slight problem in the kitchen». Which kind of talk do both use?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, both · What happens: ★, use · To what, where: Rat, kind

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 54 «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» 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: ★★ The Rat's «a little wet» and a British dad's «slight problem in the kitchen».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	nsubj
2	★	★	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ★	obj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Rat	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 wet	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wet	advmod
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ★	parataxis
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 wet	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 problem	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dad	det
13	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dad	amod
14	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 problem	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 dad	case
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 problem	punct
17	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 problem	amod
18	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ★	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 kitchen	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 kitchen	det
21	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 problem	nmod
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 problem	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	★	past	★	the Rat					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: Which kind of talk do both use?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 talk	case
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 use	aux
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 use	nsubj
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · do-support	both	which kind of talk					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Understatement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Understatement	understatement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Sarcasm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sarcasm	sarcasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A plain true fact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fact	det
2	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fact	amod
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fact	amod
4	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Hyperbole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hyperbole	hyperbole	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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