Test 8 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl give…

Did he actually bake it or was it sus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, it · What happens: bake, be · To what, where: it

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 681 «Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl gives the prince a castle, bread and a battle win» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bake	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bake	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 bake	advmod
4	bake	bake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bake	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 sus	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sus	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sus	nsubj
9	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bake	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	past · do-support	he	it				actually property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
2	is	past	it					suspect property	tree rules

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

He prayed to the fairies and the bread rose by itself while he slept all night long

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prayed	nsubj
2	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 fairies	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fairies	det
5	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prayed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rose	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bread	det
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rose	nsubj
9	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 prayed	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 itself	case
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 rose	obl
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 slept	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 slept	nsubj
14	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rose	advcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slept	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 slept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	He		to the fairies	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	rise	past	the bread		by bread	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by itself=Location
3	sleep	past	he	night	long property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he used the oven, it was fine

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oven	det
6	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 used	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	the oven					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Patient
2	is	past	he not said here					fine property	tree rules

Option 3

He baked it the normal way, sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 baked	nsubj
2	baked	bake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 baked	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 baked	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sus	punct
8	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	past	He	it				the normal way and sus obl:unmarked	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He used the curl and it was done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 curl	det
4	curl	curl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 done	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 done	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 used	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	He	the curl					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Patient
2	do	past · passive		curl					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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