Test 4 · ★ · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

Proper wicked, but what did the old man want them to fetch?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: old man, them · What happens: want, fetch · To what, where: them

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 wicked	advmod
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 want	cc
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 want	obj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 want	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wicked	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 want	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fetch	mark
13	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 want	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the old man	them = they					tree rules
2	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	them = they not said here						vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

the silver feather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feather	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feather	compound
3	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

the water of life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 life	case
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	nmod

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

Option 3

the magic sword that could cut through the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sword	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sword	amod
3	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 cut	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sword	acl:relcl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 giant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	could	the magic sword					through the giant	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through giant=Patient

Option 4

a bottle of wine from the far mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bottle	det
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wine	case
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bottle	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 mountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
7	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mountain	amod
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bottle	nmod

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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