Test 11 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

Bro, what's the zither for, like the cheat code?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: zither

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 zither	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 zither	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 zither	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 zither	det
6	zither	zither	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
7	for	for	ADP	_	12 code	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 code	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 code	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 code	det
11	cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 code	compound
12	code	code	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 zither	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bro	the zither				for the cheat code	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

Playing tunes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		tunes					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Calling for help in danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 help	case
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Calling	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 danger	case
5	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Calling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund				danger		for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

Option 3

Scaring off the wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scaring	scare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 wolves	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolves	det
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scaring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	gerund		the wolves					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wolf=Experiencer

Option 4

Charming wild animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charming	charm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Charming	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charm	gerund		wild animals					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer

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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