Test 4 · ★ · The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, pa…

Who's the bloke in bare feet, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bloke, bare feet

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1200 «The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, part 1: a prince chases a deer, gets lost in the desert and meets a barefoot stranger who is a lost king» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 bloke	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bloke	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feet	amod
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bloke	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 then	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bloke	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bloke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the bloke		bare feet	then		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

Some lad who fell off his horse and lost his shoes in the desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lad	acl:relcl
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fell	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fell	cc
9	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoes	nmod:poss
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lost	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 desert	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 desert	det
14	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	some lad	lad's horse					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient horse=Extent
2	lose	past	some lad	lad's shoes		the desert			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality

Option 2

A hunter from the next town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	amod
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunter	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

King Janangir, a proper king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Janangir	Janangir	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 King	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 king	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 king	amod
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 King	appos

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

Option 4

King Janangir, a proper king who lost his throne and walked barefoot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 walked	nsubj
2	Janangir	Janangir	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 King	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 king	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 king	amod
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 King	appos
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lost	nsubj
8	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 king	acl:relcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 throne	nmod:poss
10	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lost	cc
12	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	barefoot	barefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	a proper king	King's throne					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Eventuality
2	walk	past	King	barefoot					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme barefoot=Trajectory

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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