Test 7 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

What was Wali Dâd munching when the merchant turned up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wali, merchant · What happens: munch, turn up

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 munching	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 munching	aux
3	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 munching	nsubj
4	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wali	flat
5	munching	munch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 turned	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchant	det
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 munching	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 turned	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 munching	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	munch	past · progressive	Wali						vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	turn up	past	the merchant						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

dates and goat's milk, pretty basic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 milk	cc
3	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 milk	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 goat	case
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dates	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 basic	punct
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	8 basic	advmod
8	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 dates	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

onions and dry bread, proper basic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bread	cc
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bread	amod
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 onions	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 onions	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 basic	amod
7	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 onions	acl:relcl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

onions and dry bread, proper basic, with water from the stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bread	cc
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bread	amod
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 onions	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 basic	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 basic	amod
7	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 onions	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 water	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 onions	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 stream	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stream	det
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 onions	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

figs and fresh cheese, proper tasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cheese	cc
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cheese	amod
4	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 figs	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tasty	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tasty	amod
7	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 figs	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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