Test 7 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…

Ok, what did Cola-Mattheo chuck on the garden paths to make them gold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, make · To what, where: Mattheo chuck, garden paths, paths

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the Princess» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ok	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Cola	Cola	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mattheo	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Cola	punct
7	Mattheo	Mattheo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 chuck	compound
8	chuck	chuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 paths	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 paths	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paths	compound
12	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	obj
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Mattheo chuck		the garden paths			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive		paths = path					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary gold=Product

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

dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

broken pots and pans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pots	amod
2	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pans	cc
4	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pots	conj

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

Option 3

a pile of broken pots and pans with some old rags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pots	case
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pots	amod
5	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pile	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pans	cc
7	pans	pan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pots	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 rags	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 rags	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rags	amod
11	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pile	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

stone jars and kettles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jars	compound
2	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kettles	cc
4	kettles	kettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 jars	conj

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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