Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns th…

Fam, what's the Magician's big weakness?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: be · To what, where: big weakness

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1823 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns the Magician's secret and sets out for the parrot» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 weakness	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 weakness	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 weakness	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Magician	det
6	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 weakness	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Magician	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 weakness	amod
9	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fam	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fam and the Magician's big weakness	the Magician's big weakness					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

His power lies in a ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 power	nmod:poss
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	nsubj
3	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ring	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	His power			a ring			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location

Option 2

His life sits in a little green parrot in a cage under six chattees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 life	nmod:poss
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 parrot	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 parrot	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 parrot	amod
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 parrot	amod
8	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cage	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cage	det
11	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 parrot	nmod
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 chattees	case
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 chattees	nummod
14	chattees	chattee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	His life			six chattees		in a little green parrot in a cage	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in parrot=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His life sits in a parrot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 life	nmod:poss
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 parrot	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 parrot	det
6	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	His life					in a parrot	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in parrot=Location

Option 4

His life is hidden in a little green parrot kept in a cage far away

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 life	nmod:poss
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	aux:pass
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 parrot	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 parrot	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 parrot	amod
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 parrot	amod
9	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	obl
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 parrot	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cage	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cage	det
13	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 away	advmod
15	away	away	ADV	_	10 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · passive		His life				in a little green parrot	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in parrot=Location
2	keep	participle		a little green parrot not said here		a cage		away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cage=Location

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