Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns th…

Lol, what happens if the parrot dies?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parrot · What happens: happen, die

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 happens	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 dies	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 parrot	det
7	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dies	nsubj
8	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happens	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die a condition, not said to happen	present	the parrot						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

The Magician dies too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Magician	det
2	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dies	nsubj
3	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 dies	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	the Magician						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He cries

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 cries	nsubj
2	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	He						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The genii get free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 genii	det
2	genii	genii	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the genii					free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The stones all break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stones	det
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 break	advmod
4	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	the stones					all property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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