Test 4 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

Was the baby a proper magician or just dead clever?

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

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 baby	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baby	det
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 magician	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 magician	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magician	amod
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 clever	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 clever	advmod
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clever	amod
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magician	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 magician	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the baby					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

a proper magician who could change into animals and fool the ogre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 magician	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 magician	amod
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 change	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 change	aux
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 animals	case
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 change	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fool	cc
10	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 change	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ogre	det
12	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	could	a proper magician					into animals result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into animal=Result
2	fool	infinitive	a proper magician not said here	the ogre					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a proper magician

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 magician	det
2	proper	proper	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 3

a magician who was only pretending to be magic for the whole village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 magician	det
2	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 pretending	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretending	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 pretending	advmod
6	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 magician	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	9 magic	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 magic	cop
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pretending	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 village	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 village	amod
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 magic	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · progressive	a magician						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	a magician not said here					for the whole village; magic property	tree rules

Option 4

a bit of a trickster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 trickster	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trickster	det
5	trickster	trickster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod

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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