Test 4 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…
is the Snake keeping the magic water in its basement, like?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Snake · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: Snake, magic water, basement
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Snake | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Snake | det |
| 3 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Snake | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeping | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 basement | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 basement | nmod:poss |
| 10 | basement | basement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeping | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 keeping | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Snake | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Snake | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | the Snake not said here | the magic water | water's basement | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in basement=Location |
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, a seven-headed one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 headed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 seven | punct |
| 6 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, a many-headed one, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 headed | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 many | punct |
| 6 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fam | punct |
| 9 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nah, it's the Dragon keeping the stuff in the attic, innit, mate
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 Dragon | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Dragon | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Dragon | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dragon | det |
| 6 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Dragon | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stuff | det |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeping | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 attic | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 attic | det |
| 12 | attic | attic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 innit | punct |
| 14 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 6 Dragon | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mate | punct |
| 16 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dragon | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | the Dragon and mate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | the Dragon and mate not said here | the stuff | the attic | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme in attic=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, a big many-headed snake with a basement full of water, fam
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 snake | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 snake | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 snake | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 snake | amod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 headed | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 many | punct |
| 7 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 snake | amod |
| 8 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 basement | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 basement | det |
| 11 | basement | basement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snake | nmod |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 basement | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fam | punct |
| 16 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snake | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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