Test 11 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

what does pickle mean here, like a sour cucumber thing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: pickle · What happens: mean

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» of the books 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	pickle	pickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 mean	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 thing	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thing	det
9	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
10	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	compound
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	pickle			here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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

a sad, muddy wreck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wreck	det
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wreck	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sad	punct
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wreck	amod
5	wreck	wreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a complete mess of dirt and sticks scattered all over the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mess	det
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mess	amod
3	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 dirt	case
5	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mess	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sticks	cc
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mess	conj
8	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sticks	acl
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 floor	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 floor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	participle		sticks not said here		the floor			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over floor=Destination
2	mess			dirt					nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient

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

a messy, sorry state

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 state	det
2	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 state	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 messy	punct
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 state	amod
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

like a sour pickled cucumber that has gone bad in a jar for months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	5 cucumber	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sour	det
3	sour	sour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cucumber	nsubj
4	pickled	pickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cucumber	amod
5	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gone	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 cucumber	acl:relcl
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gone	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 jar	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 jar	det
12	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 months	case
14	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pickle	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	go	present · perfect	pickled cucumber			a jar	month	bad property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in jar=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1088-pg29021-part13/t11/