Test 9 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

Okay, where did the girl find the food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: find · To what, where: food

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	7 find	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 find	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	nsubj
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 food	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	the girl	the food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

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

beside a hut built overnight by spirits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	3 hut	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hut	det
3	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hut	acl
5	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	4 built	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 spirits	case
7	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	participle		a hut not said here				by spirits; overnight property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

near the sleeping old bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	near	near	ADP	_	5 bear	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bear	det
3	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 old	obl:unmarked
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bear	amod
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

in a big new hut that appeared overnight at the edge of the village, full of food

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 hut	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hut	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hut	amod
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hut	amod
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 appeared	nsubj
7	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hut	acl:relcl
8	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	7 appeared	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 edge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 edge	det
11	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appeared	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 village	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 village	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 edge	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 full	punct
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 village	amod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 food	case
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	a big new hut			the edge of the village		overnight property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

in a hut that was not there before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 hut	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hut	det
3	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 there	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
8	before	before	ADV	_	7 there	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	that			a hut		before, there property	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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