Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…

is the tinder-box legit or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: box legit

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 legit	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 legit	det
3	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 tinder	punct
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 legit	compound
6	legit	legit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 legit	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 legit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the box legit					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 · ← Mova's choice

yes, but only once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 once	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 once	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 once	advmod
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root

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

Option 2

yeah, rub it and the dogs show up but they are not always friendly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 rub	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rub	punct
3	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rub	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 show	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dogs	det
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 show	nsubj
8	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rub	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 show	compound:prt
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 friendly	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 friendly	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 friendly	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 friendly	advmod
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 friendly	advmod
15	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rub	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rub	imperative	you not said here	it		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	show up	present	the dogs			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	present	dogs = dog		always, friendly property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, rub it and dogs show up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 rub	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rub	punct
3	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rub	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 show	cc
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 show	nsubj
7	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rub	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 show	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	imperative	you not said here	it					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	show up	present	dogs						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nope, it only works if you strike it three times at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 works	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 works	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 works	advmod
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 strike	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 strike	nsubj
8	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 works	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 strike	obj
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 times	nummod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strike	obl:unmarked
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 midnight	case
13	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strike	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	it						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	strike a condition, not said to happen	present	you	it			midnight; time		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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