Test 3 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…

Mate, so the wolf was a magician the whole time, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: magician

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 magician	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 magician	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 magician	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 magician	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 magician	det
8	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 magician	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the wolf	a magician			time		tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

Yeah, he was a proper magician the whole time, pulling off all the disguises, no cap, sick trick

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 magician	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 magician	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 magician	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 magician	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 magician	amod
7	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 magician	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pulling	punct
12	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 time	acl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 pulling	compound:prt
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 disguises	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 disguises	det
16	disguises	disguise	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pulling	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cap	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 cap	det
19	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trick	punct
21	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 trick	amod
22	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a proper magician			time		tree rules
2	pull off	gerund	the whole time and no cap and sick trick not said here	all disguises					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Eventuality

Option 2

Yeah, he was a fake, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fake	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fake	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fake	det
6	fake	fake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fake	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, proper magic, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 magic	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 magic	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 magic	amod
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cap	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 cap	det
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 magic	appos

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

Option 4

Nah, just a wolf, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wolf	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 wolf	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wolf	conj

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

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