Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

Did Puck ever turn into a needle, like, actually?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: puck, turn · To what, where: needle

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Puck	aux
2	Puck	puck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	advcl
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 needle	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 needle	det
7	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	4 turn	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	puck	past · do-support	you not said here						tree rules
2	turn	imperative	you not said here			a needle	ever	actually property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into needle=Trajectory

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

Nope, he couldn't copy the hole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 copy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 copy	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 copy	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 copy	advmod
6	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hole	det
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 copy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not copy	could	he	the hole					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme

Option 2

Nah, too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 small	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, he tried the eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eye	det
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	he	the eye					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, he slid through the eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 slid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slid	nsubj
4	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 eye	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	past	he			the eye			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through eye=Trajectory

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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