Test 12 · ★ · pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns th…

Yo, what was the quill pen proud of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quill pen · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1618 «pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns the Tanuki, then a poor merchant's son flies off to the Turks» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pen	det
6	quill	quill	NOUN	_	7 pen	compound
7	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pen	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 proud	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the quill pen						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

Its sharp nib and fine ink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nib	nmod:poss
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nib	amod
3	nib	nib	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ink	cc
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ink	amod
6	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nib	conj

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

Option 2

Its new nib

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nib	nmod:poss
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nib	amod
3	nib	nib	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Being dipped too deep in ink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dipped	aux:pass
2	dipped	dip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 deep	csubj
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 deep	advmod
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 ink	case
6	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	gerund · passive							vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»

Option 4

Its feather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feather	nmod:poss
2	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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