Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of…

Ngl, what was the water on the walls a sign of, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be, sign · To what, where: water, walls, mate

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1157 «Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of ice is raised, and the ogre tricks the princess» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 water	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 water	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ngl	appos
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 water	nmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sign	det
11	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walls	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 mate	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 of	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sign	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the water		the walls			tree rules
2	sign			mate					nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

a magic spell cast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cast	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cast	amod
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cast	compound
4	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the ogre returning soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ogre	det
2	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ogre	acl
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 returning	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	gerund	the ogre not said here					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

something going wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 something	acl
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 going	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund						wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a sign that the ogre had cursed the whole palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 cursed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ogre	det
5	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cursed	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cursed	aux
7	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sign	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 palace	amod
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cursed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past · perfect · passive	a sign not said here	the ogre					tree rules

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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