Test 10 · ★ · Ehstnische Marchen, The Finest Liar in the World, part 4:…

what's the deal with the seed

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1753 «Ehstnische Marchen, The Finest Liar in the World, part 4: Elsa is shot down and wins a prince, then a boy's lying contest begins» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 seed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seed	det
7	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the seed						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 · ✓ the right answer

it fell in the ocean but grew on fruitful soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ocean	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ocean	det
5	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 grew	cc
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 soil	case
9	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 soil	amod
10	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	it			the ocean			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location
2	grow	past				fruitful soil			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on soil=Location

Option 2

it fell in the ocean but grew on fruitful soil and became a tree taller than the castle walls

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ocean	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ocean	det
5	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 grew	cc
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 soil	case
9	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 soil	amod
10	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	xcomp
15	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 became	xcomp
16	than	than	ADP	_	19 walls	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 walls	det
18	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walls	compound
19	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 taller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	it		the ocean		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location
2	grow	past			fruitful soil		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on soil=Location
3	become	past		a tree		tall property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

it dropped in the river and sank to the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sank	cc
7	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dropped	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 bottom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottom	det
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	it			the river			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in river=Trajectory
2	sink	past						to the bottom	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

it fell in the ocean and the fish ate it but later it grew on fruitful soil near the king's garden

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ocean	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ocean	det
5	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ate	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ate	nsubj
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ate	obj
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 grew	cc
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 grew	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grew	nsubj
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 soil	case
16	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 soil	amod
17	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	obl
18	near	near	ADP	_	22 garden	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 garden	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 king	case
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	it		the ocean		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location
2	eat	past	the fish	ocean			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	grow	past	fish		fruitful soil	near the king's garden; late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on soil=Location

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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