Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secre…

Yo, so the wife ate rice with a pin, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife · What happens: eat · To what, where: rice

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 217 «Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secret midnight feast, a curse, and a dog in a cookshop» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 ate	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 pin	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pin	det
10	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	6 ate	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 real	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 real	case
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ate	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the wife	rice				with a pin	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a long pin, grain by grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 pin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pin	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pin	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pin	amod
5	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grain	punct
7	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pin	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 grain	case
9	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pin	nmod

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

Option 2

Yeah, with a fork, all at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fork	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fork	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 fork	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fork	det
5	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fork	punct
7	all	all	ADV	_	5 fork	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 all	obl

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

Option 3

Yeah, she used this long pin and ate every single grain of rice one at a time, super slow

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 pin	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pin	amod
7	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ate	cc
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	conj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 grain	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grain	amod
12	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ate	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 rice	case
14	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grain	nmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 rice	flat
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ate	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 slow	punct
20	super	super	ADV	_	21 slow	advmod
21	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 used	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	she	this long pin					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Patient
2	eat	past	she not said here	every single grain of rice			time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient

Option 4

Nah, not a pin at all, she scooped it with bread from the cooking pot like everyone else

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 scooped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pin	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pin	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pin	det
5	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nah	appos
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 pin	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scooped	nsubj
10	scooped	scoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scooped	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 bread	case
13	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scooped	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 pot	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pot	det
16	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pot	compound
17	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scooped	obl
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 everyone	case
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 pot	nmod
20	else	else	ADV	_	19 everyone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoop	past	she	pin		the cooking pot like everyone		with bread	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from pot=Trajectory

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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