Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1…

Was the wizard in the sack real, or was he making it up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wizard, he · What happens: be, make up · To what, where: sack

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1728 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1: Little Klaus loses his horse, then tricks a farmer with a squeaking sack» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 real	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wizard	det
3	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 real	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sack	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wizard	nmod
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 making	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 making	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 making	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 making	nsubj
12	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 real	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 making	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 making	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wizard in the sack					real property	tree rules
2	make up	past · progressive	he	sack					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

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

Nah, real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 real	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was making it up, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 making	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 making	aux
3	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 making	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 making	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 making	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past · progressive	He	it				bro vocative	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

Option 3

He was real, bruv, honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 real	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 real	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 honest	punct
7	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 real	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bruv vocative; real property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he was a real wizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 wizard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wizard	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wizard	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wizard	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wizard	amod
7	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a real wizard					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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