Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, part 1: a p…

Did the jug go gold, or did it stay a rubbish old jug?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: jug · What happens: go, stay · To what, where: gold, old jug

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1448 «Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, part 1: a poor girl is cheated of her pinks and is rewarded by a Queen with a golden pitcher» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jug	det
3	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stay	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 stay	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stay	aux
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stay	nsubj
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 jug	det
12	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 old	obl:unmarked
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 jug	amod
14	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stay	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the jug	gold					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme
2	stay	past · do-support	jug	a old jug					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme jug=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

it stayed grey

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it					grey property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

no gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it went gold

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it	gold					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme

Option 4

it stayed

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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