Test 2 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…
Why does this magic NOT shame Suleiman, unlike the great dinner?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magic · What happens: not shame · To what, where: Suleiman
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 shame | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shame | aux |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 magic | det |
| 4 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shame | nsubj |
| 5 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 shame | advmod |
| 6 | shame | shame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shame | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dinner | punct |
| 9 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 12 dinner | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dinner | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dinner | amod |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shame | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 shame | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shame | present · do-support | this magic | Suleiman | unlike the great dinner | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus suleiman=Experiencer |
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 done to look very grand
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 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 done | advcl |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 grand | advmod |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | It | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | grand property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It was for a joke, not for pride
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 | 5 joke | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 joke | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 joke | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 joke | det |
| 5 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pride | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 pride | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 pride | case |
| 9 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joke | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | for a joke and pride | tree rules |
Option 3
It was for a joke, and nobody got hurt, and the Butterfly was happy
The tree, 14 words
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 | 5 joke | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 joke | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 joke | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 joke | det |
| 5 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurt | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hurt | cc |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hurt | aux:pass |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 joke | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happy | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happy | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Butterfly | det |
| 14 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 happy | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happy | cop |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 joke | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | for a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurt | past · passive | a joke not said here | nobody | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the Butterfly | happy property | tree rules |
Option 4
Because the Queens were frightened only for a moment, and then they laughed a lot
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 frightened | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queens | det |
| 3 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 laughed | advcl |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 moment | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laughed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laughed | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 laughed | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laughed | nsubj |
| 14 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lot | det |
| 16 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laughed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the Queens | moment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | Queens = queen | a lot | then | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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