Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

so what did the owl beat on in the ball?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: owl · What happens: do, beat on · To what, where: ball

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 owl	det
5	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	nsubj
6	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 beat	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ball	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ball	det
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	beat on	present	the owl			the ball			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ball=Location

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

the flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the big drum in the corner of the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drum	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drum	amod
3	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 corner	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 corner	det
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drum	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 corner	nmod

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

Option 4

the violin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 violin	det
2	violin	violin	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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