Test 3 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleto…
Bare weird, why'd the manikin's bread turn into rolls?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bread · What happens: turn · To what, where: rolls
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1722 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Flying Ship, part 46: the Simpleton gathers strange companions for his ship» 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 | Bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 weird | amod |
| 2 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turn | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 turn | advmod |
| 5 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 9 bread | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 manikin | det |
| 7 | manikin | manikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bread | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 manikin | case |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | nsubj |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 weird | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 rolls | case |
| 12 | rolls | roll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turn | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 weird | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | the manikin's bread | rolls | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into roll=Trajectory |
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
Cos the oven was hot, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 hot | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 oven | det |
| 3 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hot | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | cop |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hot | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 5 hot | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the oven | hot property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Cos it was magic, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 magic | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 magic | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 magic | cop |
| 4 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 magic | punct |
| 6 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 4 magic | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | magic property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Cos it was baked, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 baked | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 baked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 baked | aux:pass |
| 4 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 innit | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 baked | punct |
| 6 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | past · passive | it | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 4
Dunno, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dunno | Dunno | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dunno | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dunno | vocative |
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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