Test 7 · ★ · Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince…

So the eldest sister gave him a magic cake, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eldest sister · What happens: give · To what, where: magic cake, him

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1455 «Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince dives into the river as a crab» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sister	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 sister	amod
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cake	det
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cake	compound
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the eldest sister	a magic cake	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cake=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

Nah, it was a massive cake with loads of honey, but then she slipped him a potion too, innit

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 cake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cake	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cake	det
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cake	amod
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 loads	case
9	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cake	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 honey	case
11	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loads	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 slipped	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 slipped	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 slipped	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slipped	nsubj
16	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cake	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slipped	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 potion	det
19	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slipped	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	16 slipped	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 innit	punct
22	innit	innit	INTJ	_	7 cake	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a massive cake				with loads of honey	tree rules
2	slip	past	she	a potion	him = he		then		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination potion=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a cake of herbs, proper magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cake	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cake	det
4	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 herbs	case
6	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cake	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 magic	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 magic	amod
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cake	conj

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

Option 3

Yeah, a bit of soup, proper tasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tasty	obl:unmarked
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 soup	case
6	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tasty	amod
9	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, a pie with some apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 pie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pie	det
4	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 apples	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 apples	det
7	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pie	nmod

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

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