Test 2 · ★ · pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch…
Wicked, so what happened when they tried the cock's magic words?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, cock · What happens: happen, try, word · To what, where: magic words
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1215 «pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch, and a new tale begins» 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 happened | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wicked | parataxis |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 tried | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cock | det |
| 10 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 words | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 cock | case |
| 12 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tried | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | try | past | they | the cock's magic words | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | word | the cock | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Just feathers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 feathers | advmod |
| 2 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nothing, not a single gold bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bit | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 bit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | compound |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A cheap silver coin fell out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coin | det |
| 2 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coin | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coin | compound |
| 4 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | past | a cheap silver coin | out property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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