Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

Bruv, did the young girl chuck water on the son to break the spell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: do, break · To what, where: young chuck water, spell

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	compound
7	chuck	chuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	compound
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 son	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 son	det
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 break	mark
13	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spell	det
15	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 break	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bruv	the young chuck water				on the son	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality
2	break	to-infinitive	Bruv not said here	the spell					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, proper water from a vessel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 water	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 water	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 vessel	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 vessel	det
7	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	nmod

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

Option 2

Yeah, a bucket of milk, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bucket	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bucket	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bucket	det
4	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 milk	case
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bucket	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bucket	conj

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

Option 3

Yeah, she chucked proper water from a big vessel on him, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chucked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chucked	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chucked	nsubj
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 vessel	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 vessel	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 vessel	amod
10	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 vessel	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bruv	punct
14	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vessel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	she	proper water		a big vessel on him and bruv			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from vessel=Initial_Location

Option 4

Nah, she threw a bucket of cold river water over him, mate, honest

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bucket	det
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	compound
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bucket	nmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 water	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 honest	punct
16	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 threw	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	she	a bucket of cold river water over him and mate					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=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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