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Test 8 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince…

Bare monsters in this bit, innit? What was the monster like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bare monsters, monster · What happens: innit, be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1888 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince signs up for the Ice Mountain quest, is wrecked, and frees a crew of enchanted sailors» 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: Bare monsters in this bit, innit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 monsters	amod
2	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 innit	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bit	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 monsters	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	infinitive	Bare monsters in this bit						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: What was the monster like?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monster	det
4	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	4 monster	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the monster						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Like a raging bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 bear	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bear	det
3	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bear	amod
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rage	gerund							vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Like a huge furious tiger from the far jungles of the east that nobody could tame

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	5 tiger	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tiger	det
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tiger	amod
4	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tiger	amod
5	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 jungles	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jungles	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 jungles	amod
9	jungles	jungle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tiger	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 east	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 east	det
12	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jungles	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 tame	nsubj
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 tame	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tame	aux
16	tame	tame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 east	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tame	could	the east						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Like a furious tiger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 tiger	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tiger	det
3	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tiger	amod
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Like a furious tiger with huge claws and a terrible roar that shook the trees

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 tiger	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tiger	det
3	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tiger	amod
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 claws	case
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 claws	amod
7	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tiger	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 roar	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 roar	det
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 roar	amod
11	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claws	conj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 shook	nsubj
13	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 roar	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trees	det
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	a terrible roar	the trees					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=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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