Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…

Wait, what made the deaf girl finally laugh, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, make, laugh, innit · To what, where: deaf girl

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1965 «English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut to pieces, Lazy Jack wins a bride, and a cake escapes from the oven» 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	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	finally	finally	ADV	_	9 laugh	advmod
9	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past		the deaf girl		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material girl=Product
3	laugh	infinitive			finally property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	innit	infinitive	you not said here			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

a cat falling off the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 cat	acl
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 roof	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	gerund	a cat not said here	the roof					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient roof=Extent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a donkey with legs in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 legs	case
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 donkey	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legs	nmod

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

Option 3

a man sliding down stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sliding	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 man	acl
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sliding	compound:prt
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sliding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide down	gerund	a man not said here	stairs					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Agent

Option 4

a dancing cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	compound
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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