Test 5 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked…

wait, was the brook a water brook or what?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 693 «Orange Fairy Book, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 1: a wicked stepfather, a milk-brook, and a golden cage» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brook	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brook	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brook	det
5	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 brook	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brook	compound
8	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brook	appos
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 brook	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the brook					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

yes, it was gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 gold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gold	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gold	cop
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

no way, it was milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 milk	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 milk	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 milk	cop
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no way	milk					tree rules

Option 3

no, it was a clear spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 spring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spring	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spring	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spring	det
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spring	amod
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

no way, it was actually sweet milk that tasted of honey and spice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 milk	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 milk	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 milk	cop
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 milk	advmod
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 milk	amod
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tasted	nsubj
10	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 milk	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 honey	case
12	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tasted	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spice	cc
14	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 honey	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no way	sweet milk				actually property	tree rules
2	taste	past	sweet milk					of honey and spice	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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