Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…

Wait, who was buzzing when John got it right, the king innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, John · What happens: wait, buzz, get · To what, where: it

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» 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	_	5 buzzing	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 buzzing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buzzing	aux
5	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buzzing	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	obj
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 got	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 innit	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 innit	compound
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 right	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buzz	past · progressive				tree rules
3	get	past	John	it	right property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 young queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 queen	amod
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the old king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guard	det
2	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the old steward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 steward	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 steward	amod
3	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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