Test 3 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds…

wait, who even is Djulung, is he a dude or a fish

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Djulung · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Djulung, dude

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1312 «Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds a fish, he is eaten, and his bones grow into a magic tree» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Djulung	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Djulung	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	6 Djulung	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Djulung	cop
6	Djulung	Djulung	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dude	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dude	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dude	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dude	det
11	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Djulung	appos
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 fish	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fish	det
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dude	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		Djulung	tree rules
3	is a	present	Djulung	a dude or a fish	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

he's a fish living in a fountain in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fish	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fish	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 fountain	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fountain	det
8	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 living	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a fish					tree rules
2	live	gerund	a fish not said here			a fountain		in the forest	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fountain=Location

Option 2

he's a magic fish in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fish	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a magic fish		the sea			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he's a fish in a fountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fish	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 fountain	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fountain	det
7	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a fish		a fountain			tree rules

Option 4

he's a fish in a river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fish	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a fish		a river			tree rules

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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