Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Manstin the Rabbit, part 11: Iya the c…

what did Manstin wanna do with the old dude's spot?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Manstin · What happens: do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1274 «Indian Fairy Tales, Manstin the Rabbit, part 11: Iya the camp-eater is slain, then Manstin trades eyes with a blind grandfather and falls into the brook» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
4	wanna	wanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Manstin	flat
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	with	with	ADP	_	11 spot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dude	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dude	amod
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spot	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 dude	case
11	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	Manstin					with the old dude's spot	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Smoke willow bark and lean on a tent pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bark	compound
2	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bark	compound
3	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lean	cc
5	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bark	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 pole	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pole	det
8	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pole	compound
9	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	infinitive				a tent pole			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pole=Location

Option 2

Sit by the fire and sing songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 fire	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sit	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sing	cc
6	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
7	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here					by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	sing speech: express	present	you not said here	songs					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sleep all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sleep	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4

Eat the food from his bags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 bags	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bags	nmod:poss
6	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	the food		his bags			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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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