Test 11 · ★ · Indian Tales, The Enchanted Wreath, part 1: a greedy golds…

ok but what did the doves give her back, like a real reward?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doves · What happens: do, give · To what, where: back

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1153 «Indian Tales, The Enchanted Wreath, part 1: a greedy goldsmith is undone, and a kind stepdaughter is rewarded by doves» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doves	det
6	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 back	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reward	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 reward	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 reward	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 reward	amod
14	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	the doves	her back				like a real reward	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme

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 big bag of gold coins plus a wreath that never fades, bro, real talk

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bag	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bag	amod
3	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 coins	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coins	compound
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bag	nmod
7	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	9 wreath	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wreath	det
9	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coins	conj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fades	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 fades	advmod
12	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wreath	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bro	punct
14	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wreath	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 talk	punct
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 talk	amod
17	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coins	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fade	present	a wreath and bro						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Some money and a nice dress, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 money	det
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dress	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dress	det
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dress	amod
6	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 money	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 money	conj

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

Option 3

A magic wreath that never fades and also lets her talk to birds, bro

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wreath	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wreath	amod
3	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fades	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 fades	advmod
6	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wreath	acl:relcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lets	cc
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 lets	advmod
9	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fades	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lets	obj
11	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lets	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 birds	case
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 talk	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bro	punct
15	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wreath	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not fade	present	a magic wreath and bro			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	let	present	a magic wreath and bro not said here	her = she		tree rules
3	talk	infinitive	her = she not said here		to birds	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to bird=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A wreath that never fades, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wreath	det
2	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 fades	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 fades	advmod
5	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wreath	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wreath	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fade	present	a wreath and bro						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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