Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of…

Bruv, what was the stone in his turban actually for, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: turban · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: stone, turban

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stone	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 stone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stone	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 turban	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 turban	nmod:poss
9	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stone	nmod
10	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 turban	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 innit	case
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 turban	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the stone		Bruv's turban		Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	Bruv's turban not said here						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 · ✓ the right answer

making stuff appear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 appear	advcl
2	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 making	obj
3	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	you not said here	stuff					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stuff=Product
2	appear	imperative	you not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

keeping him warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 keeping	obj
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 keeping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		him = he				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

a lucky charm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 charm	det
2	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 charm	amod
3	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

hiding things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		things					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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