Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…

wait, what did the stranger want for his magic goop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, stranger · What happens: wait, want

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 goop	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 goop	nmod:poss
10	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 goop	amod
11	goop	goop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past · do-support	the stranger					for stranger's magic goop	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

those three fern stems and some water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 stems	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stems	nummod
3	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stems	compound
4	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 water	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stems	conj

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

Option 2

three silver coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 coins	nummod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coins	compound
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

fern stems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stems	compound
2	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

those three fern stems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 stems	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stems	nummod
3	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stems	compound
4	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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