Test 12 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

Ugh, who was the Bad One's rival in the kettle, the girl or the boy?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: rival, kettle

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» 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	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	9 rival	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ugh	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 rival	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rival	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 One	det
6	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 One	amod
7	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rival	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 One	case
9	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 kettle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kettle	det
12	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rival	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 girl	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rival	parataxis
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 boy	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 girl	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 rival	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Bad One's rival		the kettle			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

The girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The boy lost to the girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 girl	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the boy					to the girl	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The girl beat the Bad One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beat	nsubj
3	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 One	det
5	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 One	amod
6	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	the girl	the Bad One					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Bad One lost to the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 One	det
2	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 One	amod
3	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 One	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 boy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle		the Bad One not said here				to the boy	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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