Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pome…

Mate, the cream cake, was it proper tasty?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cake · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1822 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pomelo tree is cut down, the girls are left in the jungle, and Balna is turned into a dog» 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	10 tasty	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cake	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cake	det
4	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cake	compound
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tasty	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tasty	nsubj
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 tasty	advmod
10	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 tasty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cake					Mate and the cream cake vocative; properly, tasty 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

Nah, it was gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gross	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gross	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gross	cop
5	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the girls liked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 liked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 liked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 liked	nsubj
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	obj

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

Option 3

Nah, nobody touched it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 touched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 touched	nsubj
4	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	nobody	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they ate it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	they	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «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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