Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the st…

Can that lance cut through, like, anything?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lance · What happens: cut

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» 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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 lance	det
3	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADV	_	4 cut	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 anything	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 anything	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 cut	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	can	that lance					like anything; through property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Nah, just wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 wood	advmod
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Nope, it bends on rock, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 bends	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bends	nsubj
4	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 rock	case
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bends	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dude	punct
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rock	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	present	it			rock and dude			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location

Option 3

Nope, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 bro	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, any rock or metal, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 rock	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 rock	det
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 metal	cc
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rock	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rock	conj

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

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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