Test 10 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose f…

Dead funny, but why was Jem always in the kitchen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jem · What happens: be · To what, where: funny kitchen

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kitchen	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kitchen	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 kitchen	cc
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 kitchen	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kitchen	cop
7	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 kitchen	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 kitchen	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 kitchen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kitchen	det
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 kitchen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jem			the funny kitchen		always property	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

he was scrubbing the pots

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 scrubbing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scrubbing	aux
3	scrubbing	scrub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pots	det
5	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scrubbing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrub	past · progressive	he	the pots					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pot=Source

Option 2

he was hungry

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 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

he liked food

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	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he was cooking for the duke

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 cooking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cooking	aux
3	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 duke	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duke	det
6	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past · progressive	he					for the duke	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for duke=Beneficiary

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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