Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a ho…

so the sneaky kid who acted dumb, was he actually smart or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sneaky kid · What happens: act, be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» 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	_	12 smart	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
3	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kid	amod
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smart	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 acted	nsubj
6	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kid	acl:relcl
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 acted	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kid	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 smart	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 smart	nsubj
11	actually	actually	ADV	_	12 smart	advmod
12	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 nah	cc
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	12 smart	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 smart	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	past	the sneaky kid					dumb property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the sneaky kid					actually, smart property	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

pretty dumb, honestly, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 dumb	advmod
2	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 honestly	punct
4	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 dumb	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dumb	punct
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 dumb	discourse

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

smart as a whip, for real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 whip	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 whip	det
4	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smart	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 real	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 real	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 smart	conj

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

Option 3

dumb as a rock, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rock	case
2	as	as	ADP	_	1 dumb	fixed
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rock	det
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rock	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I					dumb a rock	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

smart as a whip, for real, he tricked the witch and the whole gang and saved his brother

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tricked	advcl
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 whip	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 whip	det
4	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smart	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 real	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 real	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 smart	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tricked	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tricked	nsubj
10	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witch	det
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tricked	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gang	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gang	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gang	amod
16	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 witch	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saved	cc
18	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tricked	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brother	nmod:poss
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	the witch and the whole gang					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient
2	save	past	he not said here	his brother					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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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