Test 13 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow…

what's the cumin thing, is it a spice or a bird?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spice, cumin thing · What happens: be · To what, where: cumin thing, spice

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1855 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow is caught and plucked» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 thing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	cumin	cumin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spice	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 spice	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spice	nsubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spice	det
10	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 bird	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spice	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 spice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a spice or a bird	the cumin thing					tree rules
2	is a	present	the cumin thing	a spice or a bird					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

a bird, like a crane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bird	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 crane	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crane	det
6	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bird	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a bird that lives in the kitchen and eats fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bird	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lives	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eats	cc
9	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lives	conj
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a bird			the kitchen			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location
2	eat	present	a bird not said here	fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 3

a spice, like ginger, that the cook kept in the box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spice	det
2	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ginger	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 ginger	case
5	ginger	ginger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spice	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cook	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 cook	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cook	det
9	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spice	conj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cook	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 box	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 box	det
13	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle		the cook not said here		the box			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in box=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a spice, like ginger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spice	det
2	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ginger	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 ginger	case
5	ginger	ginger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spice	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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