Test 6 · ★ · Gutenberg 3282, The Sister of the Sun, part 38: the boy st…

bro, what's the deal with the star on the princess's forehead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1237 «Gutenberg 3282, The Sister of the Sun, part 38: the boy steals a golden hen, but keeps going back into the palace, and the fox rescues the princess from the giants» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 star	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 star	det
9	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	14 forehead	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forehead	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 princess	case
14	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 star	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bro	the deal				with the star on the princess's forehead	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

it makes the darkness vanish, like day

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 darkness	det
4	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	the darkness			day		tree rules
2	vanish	present	the darkness not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

it's the sign that she's the sister of the sun and can talk to birds all day long

The tree, 20 words

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 sign	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sign	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 sister	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sister	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sister	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sister	det
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sign	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sister	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 talk	cc
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 talk	aux
15	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sign	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 birds	case
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 talk	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talk	obl:unmarked
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the sign			tree rules
2	is a	present	she	the sister		of the sun	tree rules
3	talk	can			day	to birds; long property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to bird=Co-Agent

Option 3

it's a mark that shows she's royal

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 mark	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mark	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mark	det
4	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 shows	nsubj
6	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mark	acl:relcl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 royal	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 royal	cop
9	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a mark		tree rules
2	show	present	a mark			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	she		royal property	tree rules

Option 4

it's a magic star that heals

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	5 star	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 star	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 star	det
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 star	compound
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 heals	nsubj
7	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 star	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a magic star					tree rules
2	heal	present	a magic star						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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