Test 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…

Who drowns himself out of pure jealousy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: drown · To what, where: himself, pure jealousy

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 drowns	nsubj
2	drowns	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 drowns	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 jealousy	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 jealousy	case
6	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jealousy	amod
7	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drowns	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 drowns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	present		himself = he		pure jealousy			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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

The old magician

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 magician	amod
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The hangman's helper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hangman	det
2	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helper	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 hangman	case
4	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The groom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The stable helper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 helper	det
2	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 helper	amod
3	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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