Test 1 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…

yo, did the girl's hair actually lower the murderer down the well, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, lower · To what, where: hair, murderer, well

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» 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	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lower	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hair	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 girl	case
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 lower	advmod
9	lower	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 murderer	det
11	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lower	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	14 well	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 well	det
14	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lower	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 what	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lower	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 lower	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the girl's hair					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality
2	lower	present		the murderer		the well		actually property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent murderer=Theme down well=Destination

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

yeah, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 fam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she used a rope, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rope	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	she	a rope and innit					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, proper long hair, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hair	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hair	punct
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hair	conj

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

Option 4

yeah, it was her hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 hair	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hair	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hair	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	her hair					tree rules

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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