Test 3 · ★ · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper: Tiidu sells magic apples…

Bro, what happened to the king's nose?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: happen

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 680 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper: Tiidu sells magic apples at the palace, and the royal noses grow.» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 nose	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nose	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Bro					to the king's nose	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It turned blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It					blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It fell off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	It						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

It got really red and sore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 red	advmod
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sore	cc
6	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 red	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	It					red property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It grew over a yard long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 yard	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 yard	det
5	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	It					over a yard; long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over yard=Location

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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