Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become ste…

Wait, so the bones were like a wicked ladder up the tree?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, bones · What happens: wait, be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2019 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Auburn Mary, part 38: bones become steps, a finger is lost, and the giant drowns» 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	_	10 ladder	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	10 ladder	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bones	det
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ladder	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ladder	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 ladder	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ladder	det
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ladder	amod
10	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
11	up	up	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ladder	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the bones					like a wicked ladder; up the tree	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

Nah, they fell off the tree in the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wind	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	they	the tree				in the wind	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tree=Extent in wind=Attribute

Option 2

Yeah, mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, they were just sticks, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sticks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sticks	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sticks	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sticks	advmod
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sticks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	sticks and bruv					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Proper, they stuck to the glass like glue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	4 stuck	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 glass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glass	det
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 glue	case
9	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past	they					to the glass; like glue; properly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to glass=Co-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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2019-pg7885-part38/t2/