Test 9 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

Bro, what was the blue bull's secret?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: secret

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 secret	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 secret	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 secret	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bull	det
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bull	amod
7	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secret	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 bull	case
9	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bro and the blue bull's secret	the blue bull's secret					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 · ← Mova's choice

a key in his right ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 key	det
2	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 ear	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ear	nmod:poss
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ear	amod
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 key	nmod

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

Option 2

a cloth tucked under his collar and hidden by his mane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloth	det
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	tucked	tuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cloth	acl
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 collar	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 collar	nmod:poss
6	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tucked	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hidden	cc
8	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tucked	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 mane	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mane	nmod:poss
11	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tuck	participle		a cloth not said here		his collar			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent under collar=Trajectory
2	hide	participle						by his mane	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by mane=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a cloth in his left ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloth	det
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 ear	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ear	nmod:poss
5	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ear	amod
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cloth	nmod

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

Option 4

a small cloth hidden deep inside his left ear behind the fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloth	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloth	amod
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cloth	acl
5	deep	deep	ADV	_	4 hidden	advmod
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 ear	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ear	nmod:poss
8	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ear	amod
9	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	obl
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 fur	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fur	det
12	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle		a small cloth not said here		his left ear behind the fur		deep property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside ear=Location

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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