Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the B…

ok but who ended up as the light at night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: end up

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 587 «Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the Bad Man and ends up as a light between heaven and earth» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	4 ended	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 ended	cc
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ended	nsubj
4	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 ended	compound:prt
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ended	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 light	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	past						as the light at night	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 Ole Boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Boy	det
2	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Boy	compound
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the blacksmith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blacksmith	det
2	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the blacksmith's old lantern-carrying wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blacksmith	det
2	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 blacksmith	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wife	amod
5	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carrying	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 lantern	punct
7	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 wife	amod
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund							vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the Good Place gatekeeper after his death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gatekeeper	det
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gatekeeper	amod
3	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gatekeeper	compound
4	gatekeeper	gatekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 death	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 death	nmod:poss
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gatekeeper	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		his = he						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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