Test 9 · ★ · Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in…

Mate, what was the sweet stuff in the pit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: sweet stuff, pit

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1796 «Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in a honey pit, escapes through a scorpion's hole, and is caught at the baths» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stuff	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 stuff	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stuff	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stuff	det
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stuff	amod
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pit	det
10	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuff	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the sweet stuff	the sweet stuff		the pit			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

Date syrup mixed with figs and stolen from the king's garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 syrup	compound
2	syrup	syrup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mixed	nsubj:pass
3	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 figs	case
5	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mixed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stolen	cc
7	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mixed	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	12 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 garden	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle · passive		Date syrup				with figs	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with fig=Co-Patient
2	steal	participle				the king's garden			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Honey up to the brim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honey	honey	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Honey	compound:prt
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 brim	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brim	det
5	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Honey	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honey up	imperative	you not said here					to the brim	tree rules

Option 3

Honey and wax that the bees had made all over the rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wax	cc
3	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Honey	conj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 made	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bees	det
6	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Honey	acl
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 rock	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rock	det
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · passive	Honey and wax not said here	the bees		the rock			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

Sweet dates piled high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dates	amod
2	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dates	acl
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 piled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pile	participle		Sweet dates not said here				high property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

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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