Test 1 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid'…

Oi, what's the Mermaid's trick to fool the Fairy, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, fool · To what, where: trick, Fairy

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	8 trick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 trick	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 trick	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mermaid	det
6	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 trick	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Mermaid	case
8	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fool	mark
10	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 trick	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fairy	det
12	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fool	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bruv	punct
14	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trick	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Mermaid's trick and bruv					tree rules
2	fool	to-infinitive		the Fairy					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Patient

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

A false king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A fake King made of sea-weed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 King	det
2	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 King	amod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 weed	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weed	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sea	punct
8	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle · passive		a fake King				of sea weed	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

A stone statue of a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 statue	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 statue	compound
3	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 statue	nmod

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

Option 4

A painted wooden knight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knight	det
2	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knight	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knight	amod
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	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

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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