Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…

Was the sea-water gross, or was it sweet like Coke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gross · What happens: be · To what, where: sea water gross

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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	6 gross	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gross	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gross	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sea	punct
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gross	compound
6	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sweet	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 sweet	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sweet	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sweet	nsubj
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gross	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 Coke	case
13	Coke	Coke	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sweet	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gross	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sea water gross					tree rules
2	is	past	gross					like Coke; sweet 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

It was salty

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	3 salty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 salty	cop
3	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					salty property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was bitter

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	3 bitter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bitter	cop
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					bitter property	tree rules

Option 3

Sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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