Test 5 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

Proper odd, what's in that soup that tastes weird?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soup · What happens: be, taste · To what, where: soup

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Proper	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 soup	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 soup	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 soup	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 soup	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 soup	det
8	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Proper	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tastes	nsubj
10	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 soup	acl:relcl
11	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tastes	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				that soup			tree rules
2	taste	present	that soup					weird property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Sweet like cake and honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 cake	case
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sweet	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 honey	cc
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cake	conj

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

Option 2

Sweet and sharp together, with strange herbs and a smoky flavour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 herbs	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sharp	cc
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sweet	conj
4	together	together	ADV	_	1 Sweet	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 herbs	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 herbs	case
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 herbs	amod
8	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flavour	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 flavour	det
11	smoky	smoky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flavour	amod
12	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 herbs	conj

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

Option 3

Sour lemons and salt mixed with old bread and cabbage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lemons	amod
2	lemons	lemon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 salt	cc
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lemons	conj
5	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lemons	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bread	case
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bread	amod
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mixed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cabbage	cc
10	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		Sour lemons and salt not said here				with old bread and cabbage	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with bread=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sweet and sharp together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sharp	cc
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sweet	conj
4	together	together	ADV	_	1 Sweet	advmod

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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