Test 7 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

Was it raining sausages and pearls, or am I making that up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, I · What happens: rain, make up · To what, where: sausages, that

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	aux
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raining	nsubj
3	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 raining	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pearls	cc
6	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sausages	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 making	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 making	cc
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 making	aux
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 making	nsubj
11	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 raining	conj
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 making	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 making	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 raining	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	past · progressive	it	sausages and pearls					tree rules
2	make up	present · progressive	I	that					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Pivot

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

Yeah, only pearls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pearls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 pearls	advmod
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, sausages, tarts and pearls came down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sausages	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sausages	punct
3	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tarts	punct
5	tarts	tart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sausages	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pearls	cc
7	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sausages	conj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	sausages and tarts and pearls					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, just hail and some frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hail	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 hail	advmod
4	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 frogs	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 frogs	det
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hail	conj

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

Option 4

Yeah, sweets and cakes came down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cakes	cc
5	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sweets	conj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	sweets and cakes					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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