Test 11 · Dates, engagements and weddings

At a wedding, which person is a page boy most like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: person · What happens: be · To what, where: page boy

This is test 11 of lesson 13 «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 wedding	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wedding	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boy	punct
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 boy	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
9	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	compound
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wedding	conj
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 like	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	10 boy	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wedding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which person	a page boy					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

A bridesmaid, but a young boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bridesmaid	det
2	bridesmaid	bridesmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bridesmaid	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 boy	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bridesmaid	conj

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

Option 2

The best man's father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 man	case
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The person who marries the couple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 marries	nsubj
4	marries	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 person	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 couple	det
6	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marries	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	present	the person	the couple					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Patient

Option 4

The waiter at the reception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 waiter	det
2	waiter	waiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 reception	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reception	det
5	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waiter	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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