Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 24: the little man…
Okay, what happens to the merchant's house?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1437 «Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 24: the little man tears himself in two, and the merchant finds a magic castle» 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 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 4 happens | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Okay | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 4 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchant | det |
| 7 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 merchant | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happens | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | to the merchant's house | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
It got flooded, total mess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flooded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flooded | aux:pass |
| 3 | flooded | flood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mess | punct |
| 5 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mess | amod |
| 6 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flooded | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flood | past · passive | It | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It burnt down, total disaster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 burnt | nsubj |
| 2 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 burnt | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 disaster | punct |
| 5 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 disaster | amod |
| 6 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burnt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt down | past | It | total disaster | tree rules |
Option 3
It got stolen, what a bummer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stolen | aux:pass |
| 3 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 stolen | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bummer | det |
| 7 | bummer | bummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 what | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past · passive | It | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
It's fine now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fine | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 fine | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | now | fine property | tree rules |
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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