Test 6 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prin…

The little box is basically a magic taxi, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little box · What happens: be · To what, where: magic taxi

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taxi	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 taxi	cop
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 taxi	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 taxi	det
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 taxi	amod
8	taxi	taxi	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taxi	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 taxi	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 taxi	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the little box	a magic taxi				basically 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, it zooms you anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 zooms	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 zooms	nsubj
4	zooms	zoom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 zooms	obj
6	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 zooms	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zoom	present	it	you				anywhere property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location you=Theme

Option 2

Nah, it's a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 rock	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rock	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rock	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a rock					tree rules

Option 3

Yep, it flies you home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 flies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flies	nsubj
4	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 flies	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 flies	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	it	you				home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it just holds notes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 holds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 holds	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 holds	advmod
5	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 holds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	it	notes					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme

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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