Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tes…

Wait, what's the Wise Man's trick, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, innit · To what, where: trick

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trick	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 trick	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 trick	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Man	det
6	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Man	amod
7	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 trick	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Man	case
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
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	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the Wise Man's trick	tree rules
3	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 · ← Mova's choice

Boil a rhyme in a pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rhyme	det
3	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Boil	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pot	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pot	det
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Boil	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	imperative	you not said here	a rhyme				in a pot	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient in pot=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Boil soup in an eggshell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boil	boil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soup	compound
2	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 eggshell	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 eggshell	det
5	eggshell	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soup	nmod

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

Option 3

Brew ale in a bucket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brew	Brew	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ale	compound
2	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bucket	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bucket	det
5	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ale	nmod

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

Option 4

Boil an egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 egg	det
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Boil	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	imperative	you not said here	a egg					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=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.

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