Test 2 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

Was the magic needle totally lit or just meh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, lit · To what, where: magic needle

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» 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	4 needle	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 needle	det
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 needle	amod
4	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	nsubj:pass
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 lit	advmod
6	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 meh	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 meh	advmod
9	meh	meh	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lit	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the magic needle					tree rules
2	lit	participle · passive		the magic needle				totally 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It sewed all by itself, super lit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sewed	nsubj
2	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 sewed	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 itself	case
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 sewed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lit	punct
7	super	super	ADV	_	8 lit	advmod
8	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sewed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past	It					by itself = it; all property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by itself=Destination
2	lit	participle						super property	tree rules

Option 2

Sewed fast but needed hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sewed	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hands	amod
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Sewed	advmod
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 needed	cc
4	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sewed	conj
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	participle						fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	need	past							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

It sewed by itself, kinda cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sewed	nsubj
2	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 itself	case
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 sewed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cool	punct
6	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	7 cool	advmod
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sewed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past	It					by itself = it	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by itself=Destination

Option 4

Meh, kinda boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meh	Meh	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boring	punct
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 boring	advmod
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Meh	appos

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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