Test 13 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Three Oranges, part 60: Désiré oils…
Wait, what's a gourd even, like a fruit or a drink thing?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: gourd
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1563 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Three Oranges, part 60: Désiré oils the gate, pleases the helpers, and reaches a thirsty sandy plain» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gourd | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 gourd | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gourd | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gourd | det |
| 6 | gourd | gourd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 1 Wait | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fruit | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 fruit | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fruit | det |
| 11 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 thing | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thing | compound |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fruit | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a gourd | 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
A small wooden cup to drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cup | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cup | amod |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cup | amod |
| 4 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 drink | mark |
| 6 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cup | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
A sweet cake made with honey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cake | det |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cake | amod |
| 3 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cake | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 honey | case |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a sweet cake not said here | with honey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 3
A fruit from the south
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fruit | det |
| 2 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 south | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 south | det |
| 5 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fruit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A dried-out shell used as a water bottle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shell | det |
| 2 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shell | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 dried | punct |
| 4 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shell | compound |
| 5 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shell | acl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 bottle | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bottle | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bottle | compound |
| 10 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | use | participle | a dried out shell not said here | as a water bottle | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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