Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tes…

So what was the rhyme's point, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: point

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2020 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children back» 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 point	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 point	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rhyme	det
5	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 point	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 rhyme	case
7	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 point	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 point	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the rhyme's point					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

Rye can't grow from eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 eggs	case
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	can	Rye					from eggs	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from egg=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An eggshell can't make a dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 eggshell	det
2	eggshell	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 make	advmod
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dinner	det
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	a eggshell	a dinner					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material dinner=Product

Option 3

A dinner can't grow from oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dinner	det
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 oak	case
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	can	a dinner					from oak	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from oak=Patient

Option 4

An eggshell can't make a dinner, so the twins were giving the goblins away

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 eggshell	det
2	eggshell	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 make	advmod
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dinner	det
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 giving	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 giving	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 twins	det
11	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 giving	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 giving	aux
13	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 make	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 goblins	det
15	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 giving	obj
16	away	away	ADV	_	13 giving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	a eggshell	a dinner					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material dinner=Product
2	give away	past · progressive	the twins	the goblins				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent goblin=Theme

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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