Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wis…

so the book is basically the answer to life, right?

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

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 938 «Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wise man in a crystal castle fears death and teaches his children about the philosopher's stone» 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 answer	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answer	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 answer	cop
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	7 answer	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 answer	det
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 life	case
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answer	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	7 answer	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the book	the answer				to life; 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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the book is full of answers, but the wise man can only read the first pages

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 answers	case
8	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 read	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 read	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 read	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 read	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 read	advmod
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 full	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pages	det
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 pages	amod
19	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the book					of answers; full property	tree rules
2	read	can	the wise man	the first pages					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Only parts of it are clear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 parts	advmod
2	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clear	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 parts	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clear	cop
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						parts of it obl; clear property	tree rules

Option 3

Partly, some pages are unclear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Partly	partly	ADV	_	6 unclear	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Partly	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 pages	det
4	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 unclear	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 unclear	cop
6	unclear	unclear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	some pages					partly, unclear property	tree rules

Option 4

Only parts of it are clear, and the rest is a mystery nobody can read

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 parts	advmod
2	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clear	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 parts	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 clear	cop
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mystery	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mystery	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mystery	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mystery	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mystery	det
13	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clear	appos
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 read	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 read	aux
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 mystery	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			parts of it obl; clear property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the rest	a mystery		tree rules
3	read	can	nobody	a mystery not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mystery=Topic

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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