Test 9 · ★ · pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns th…

So the sultan wanted something funny, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sultan · What happens: want · To what, where: something

This is test 9 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sultan	det
3	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 wanted	obj
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the sultan	something					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme

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

Some silly rhymes to make him smile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 rhymes	det
2	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rhymes	amod
3	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rhymes	acl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he					tree rules
2	smile	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Something merry to make him laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Something	amod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 merry	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he					tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Something funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Something	amod

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

Option 4

A tale of love to make him weep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 love	case
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tale	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tale	acl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he	tree rules
2	weep	infinitive	him = he not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell		love		nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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