Test 8 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clums…
So the magic stone was in his turban, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magic stone · What happens: be · To what, where: turban
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1156 «Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clumsy mistake, a lost-seeming weaver, and a son who gets rich with a magic stone» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 turban | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 3 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stone | compound |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turban | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turban | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 turban | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 turban | nmod:poss |
| 8 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turban | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 turban | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 turban | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the magic stone | his turban | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, it was in his pocket, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 pocket | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pocket | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pocket | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pocket | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root | ||
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pocket | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | his pocket and mate | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, tucked in his sash, proper cool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 tucked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tucked | punct |
| 3 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sash | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sash | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sash | sash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tucked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cool | punct |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cool | amod |
| 9 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sash | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | participle | his sash | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in sash=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, hidden in there, sick trick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 hidden | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hidden | punct |
| 3 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 there | case |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hidden | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trick | punct |
| 7 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trick | amod |
| 8 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hidden | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in there=Location |
Option 4
Nah, in his boot, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 boot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boot | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 boot | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 boot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boot | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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