Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…

bro, what made the cook cry?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cook · What happens: make, cry · To what, where: cook

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 167 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king dies of poisoned pages, then the magic fish burn in the kitchen» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the cook				bro vocative	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	the cook not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

burnt food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 food	amod
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the fish were cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fish					cold property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the fish were burnt black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burnt	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burnt	aux:pass
4	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 burnt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · passive		the fish				black property	tree rules

Option 4

the sauce was spoiled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sauce	det
2	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoiled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoiled	aux:pass
4	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spoil	past · passive		the sauce					tree rules

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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