Test 10 · ★ · Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries t…

Bruh, what's a boomerang anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: boomerang

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1212 «Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries the gold and the bridge, and Ball-Carrier goes home» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 boomerang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 boomerang	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boomerang	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boomerang	det
6	boomerang	boomerang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 boomerang	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 boomerang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a boomerang				anyway property	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

A weapon that comes back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 weapon	det
2	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 weapon	acl:relcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	a weapon						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

A spear that flies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spear	det
2	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 flies	nsubj
4	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spear	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	a spear						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A curved wooden weapon that comes back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 weapon	det
2	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 weapon	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weapon	amod
4	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 weapon	acl:relcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curve	participle							vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
2	come back	present	a curved wooden weapon						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A throwing stick that flies away and returns to the hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stick	det
2	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stick	amod
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 returns	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 flies	nsubj
5	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stick	acl:relcl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 flies	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 flies	cc
8	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hand	det
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 returns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	fly away	present	a throwing stick	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	return	present	a throwing stick	to the hand result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hand=Result

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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