Test 2 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ri…

wait, so the cropped-ear one made the old dude sneeze, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, cropped ear · What happens: wait, crop, make · To what, where: old dude sneeze

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1416 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ring, then lose it at sea» 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	_	9 made	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 made	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ear	det
5	cropped	crop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ear	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cropped	punct
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	nsubj
8	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sneeze	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sneeze	amod
12	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sneeze	compound
13	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crop	participle			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	make	past	the cropped ear	the old dude sneeze	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sneeze=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, with oil and pepper on her tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 oil	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 oil	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 oil	case
4	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pepper	cc
6	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oil	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tail	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pepper	nmod

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

Option 2

yeah, she dipped her paw in honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dipped	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dipped	nsubj
4	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 paw	nmod:poss
6	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dipped	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 honey	case
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	past	she	her paw		honey			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in honey=Trajectory

Option 3

nah, with a feather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 feather	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feather	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 feather	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feather	det
5	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

nah, she just poked his nose in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 poked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 poked	advmod
5	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nose	nmod:poss
7	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poked	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	past	she	his nose		bed			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nose=Theme

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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