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Test 8 · ★★ · Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet

In a cartoon, a parrot repeats "The king has banned birthdays!" and the whole town panics, but the king never said it. What should the townspeople have asked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parrot, whole town, king · What happens: repeat, ban, panic, not say, ask · To what, where: cartoon, king, town, townspeople · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 36 «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» of the politics 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: In a cartoon, a parrot repeats "The king has banned birthdays!" and the whole town panics, but the king never said it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 repeats	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 parrot	det
6	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 repeats	nsubj
7	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 banned	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 banned	nsubj:pass
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 banned	aux
12	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 repeats	ccomp
13	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 banned	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 banned	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 banned	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 panics	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 town	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 town	amod
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 panics	nsubj
20	panics	panic	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 repeats	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 said	advmod
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 repeats	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 repeats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	present	a parrot			a cartoon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ban in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the king					tree rules
3	panic	present	the whole town						vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not say speech: assert	past	the king	town					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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.

Sentence 2: What should the townspeople have asked?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 asked	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 townspeople	det
4	townspeople	townspeople	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 asked	nsubj:pass
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	aux
6	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	should · perfect · passive		the townspeople					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Whether the parrot liked birthdays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	5 birthdays	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parrot	det
3	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 birthdays	compound
4	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 parrot	acl
5	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	participle		the parrot not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

How loudly the parrot said it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 loudly	advmod
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 parrot	det
4	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the parrot	it				loudly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

What colour the parrot was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 parrot	det
4	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	nmod
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	what colour the parrot						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Who first said it and where it came from

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 said	nsubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 came	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	8 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		it				first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	come	past	it						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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