Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

is that magic basket legit, or is it a total fake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, legit · What happens: be · To what, where: magic basket legit, total fake

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 legit	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 legit	nsubj
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legit	amod
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legit	compound
5	legit	legit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fake	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 fake	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fake	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fake	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fake	det
11	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fake	amod
12	fake	fake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legit	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 legit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	magic basket legit					tree rules
2	is a	present	legit	a total fake					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

it's a trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trick	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trick	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a trick					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it really gives dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gives	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 gives	advmod
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	it	dinner					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme

Option 3

it only gives snacks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gives	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 gives	advmod
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	snacks	snack	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	it	snacks					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme

Option 4

it is fake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fake	cop
3	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					fake 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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