Test 2 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Po…

Wait, bro, why did the rabbit make that proper dodgy clay boat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, rabbit, that · What happens: wait, make, boat

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1349 «Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage, part 9: Kotei beats the fog and crosses the river in boats made after a spider's leaf» 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	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 make	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rabbit	det
8	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	nsubj
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	parataxis
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 boat	nsubj
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boat	amod
12	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boat	amod
13	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boat	compound
14	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	bro vocative	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past · do-support	the rabbit		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	boat		that		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 · ✓ the right answer

to drown the badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 drown	mark
2	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 badger	det
4	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drown	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	to-infinitive		the badger					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Patient

Option 2

to sink him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 sink	mark
2	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	to-infinitive		him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

to trap him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 trap	mark
2	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	to-infinitive		him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

to scare the old fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fox	amod
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	to-infinitive		the old fox					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fox=Experiencer

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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