--- title: Puzzle: in a made-up language, "nuk" means fish (one), "nukki" means… — Grammar puzzles, part one · tree and pragmatics description: Puzzle: in a made-up language, "nuk" means fish (one), "nukki" means fish (many), "dar" means bird (one). What does "darri" mean? 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What does "darri" mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Puzzle, nukki, dar, darri · **What happens:** make up, mean · **To what, where:** fish, bird This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 11 «Grammar puzzles, part one» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Puzzle: in a made-up language, "nuk" means fish (one), "nukki" means fish (many), "dar" means bird (one). ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:t10:1 # text = Puzzle: in a made-up language, "nuk" means fish (one), "nukki" means fish (many), "dar" means bird (one). 1 Puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 8 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 nuk nuk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 nukki nukki NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 23 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 32 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Puzzle in a made language | fish | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | nukki | fish | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | dar | bird | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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 does "darri" mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:t10:2 # text = What does "darri" mean? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 darri darri NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | darri | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} one fish and one bird ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:t10:o1:1 # text = one fish and one bird 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a bird's nest ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:t10:o2:1 # text = a bird's nest 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a big bird ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:t10:o3:1 # text = a big bird 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} birds ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:t10:o4:1 # text = birds 1 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 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. 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