Test 5 · ★ · Perseus book, The Terrible Head, part 44: the boy wins the…

Ha, so the fairies are dancing round some tree, right, what's special about it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairies · What happens: dance, be · To what, where: tree

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1457 «Perseus book, The Terrible Head, part 44: the boy wins the Cap, Sword and Shoes on his quest» 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	7 dancing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ha	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 dancing	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fairies	det
5	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dancing	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dancing	aux
7	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dancing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 special	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	16 special	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 special	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 special	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 special	cop
16	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dancing	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 special	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dancing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present · progressive	the fairies			some tree			vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round tree=Trajectory
2	is	present						about tree; special property	tree rules

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's got pears made of silver

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	4 pears	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pears	cop
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pears	amod
4	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pears	acl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 silver	case
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	participle				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	It	got pears		tree rules
3	make	participle		got pears not said here	of silver	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It's a big oak

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	5 oak	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 oak	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 oak	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 oak	amod
5	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a big oak					tree rules

Option 3

Just a plain tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 tree	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's got apples made of 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	3 got	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obj
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 apples	acl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · passive	It	apples					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus
2	make	participle		apples not said here				of gold	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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