Test 8 · ★ · Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries t…
Dude, did Ball-Carrier actually have the gold stuck to him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, gold · What happens: do, have, stick · To what, where: Ball, Dude
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dude | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Carrier | punct |
| 6 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ball | conj |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 have | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gold | det |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stuck | nsubj |
| 11 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stuck | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dude | Ball and Carrier | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | present | actually property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stick | past | the gold | Dude | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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
Nah, in his hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 hair | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hair | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hair | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, in his left arm-pit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 pit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pit | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pit | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pit | nmod:poss |
| 5 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pit | amod |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pit | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 arm | punct |
| 8 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, in his right arm-pit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 pit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pit | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pit | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pit | nmod:poss |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pit | amod |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pit | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 arm | punct |
| 8 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, in his hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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