Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Pero…

Was the bundle actually a whole castle, or was it a bit of a bluff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: castle · What happens: be · To what, where: bundle, bit

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1321 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Peronnik saves Nantes with the magic bowl, then a king's son wins a bundle and a giant's bargain» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bundle	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bundle	det
3	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 castle	csubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 castle	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 castle	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 castle	amod
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bit	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 bit	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bit	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bit	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 castle	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 bluff	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bluff	det
16	bluff	bluff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bit	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 castle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the bundle					tree rules
2	is a	past	castle	a bit				of a bluff	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 · ← Mova's choice

A full castle with towers, gardens and a great orchard surrounded by walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 castle	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 castle	amod
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 towers	case
5	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 castle	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gardens	punct
7	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 towers	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 orchard	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 orchard	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 orchard	amod
11	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 castle	conj
12	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 orchard	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 walls	case
14	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 surrounded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surround	participle		a great orchard not said here				by walls	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing but a tiny model castle with a painted orchard on the lid of the bundle

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 castle	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 castle	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 castle	amod
5	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 castle	compound
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 orchard	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 orchard	det
9	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 orchard	amod
10	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 castle	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 lid	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lid	det
13	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 bundle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bundle	det
16	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lid	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A small wooden chest of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chest	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chest	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chest	amod
4	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chest	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A castle with an orchard inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 castle	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 orchard	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 orchard	det
5	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 castle	nmod
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 orchard	advmod

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

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