Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic…
So the Brahman's pot was full of rice? That's a lot of rice, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pot, That · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: lot
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1824 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, the Broken Pot and the Magic Fiddle: the Prince wins his parrot, Punchkin dies, and a greedy Brahman and a jealous sister-in-law are introduced» 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
Sentence 1: So the Brahman's pot was full of rice?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 full | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Brahman | det |
| 3 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pot | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Brahman | case |
| 5 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 full | cop |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rice | case |
| 9 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Brahman's pot | of rice; full 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.
Sentence 2: That's a lot of rice, innit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lot | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lot | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lot | det |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rice | case |
| 6 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lot | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 lot | parataxis |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a lot | of rice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, just a bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 bit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, brimful of it, he begged for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 brimful | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brimful | punct |
| 3 | brimful | brimful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brimful | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 begged | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 begged | nsubj |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brimful | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 begged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | he | for it | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for it=Topic |
Option 3
Nah, it held barley and some wheat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 held | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wheat | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 wheat | det |
| 8 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 barley | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | it | barley and some wheat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barley=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, half full
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 full | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 full | advmod |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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