Test 3 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Po…

Mate, what made the badger's boat go all to bits?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: make, go · To what, where: boat, bits

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 badger	det
6	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boat	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 badger	case
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 bits	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 bits	case
12	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Mate	the badger's boat					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material boat=Product
2	go	present	Mate			bits			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bit=Initial_Location

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 sun dried it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dried	nsubj
3	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	past	the sun	it					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the water softened the clay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 softened	nsubj
3	softened	soften	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clay	det
5	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 softened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soften	past	the water	the clay					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent clay=Patient

Option 3

a crack split the wooden hull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crack	det
2	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 split	nsubj
3	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hull	det
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hull	amod
6	hull	hull	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 split	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	a crack	the wooden hull					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hull=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

rough waves hit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 waves	amod
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	hit	hit	PUNCT	_	2 waves	punct

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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