Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 22: the…
Wait, what even were the girdle-cakes he nicked?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, nick · To what, where: girdle cakes
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1838 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 22: the lad wins the Jogi's cow and goes off to marry, but shoots pigeons on the way» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nicked | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 nicked | obj |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 cakes | advmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cakes | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cakes | det |
| 7 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cakes | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 girdle | punct |
| 9 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nicked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 nicked | nsubj |
| 11 | nicked | nick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Wait | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the girdle cakes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | nick | participle · passive | the girdle cakes | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Flat cakes cooked on a hot griddle, proper sick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cakes | amod |
| 2 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sick | nsubj |
| 3 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cakes | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 griddle | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 griddle | det |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 griddle | amod |
| 7 | griddle | griddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cooked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cakes | punct |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sick | amod |
| 10 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | participle | Flat cakes not said here | on a hot griddle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on griddle=Instrument |
Option 2
Biscuits baked for the king, dead good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Biscuits | acl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 baked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Biscuits | punct |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Biscuits | amod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Biscuits | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | participle | Biscuits not said here | for the king | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for king=Beneficiary |
Option 3
Cakes fried in oil, bare tasty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | fried | fry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Cakes | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 oil | case |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fried | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cakes | punct |
| 6 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tasty | amod |
| 7 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Cakes | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fry | participle | Cakes not said here | in oil | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in oil=Instrument |
Option 4
Bread, proper nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nice | punct |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nice | amod |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Bread | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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