Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

wait did the soldiers do cannons or crackers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, soldiers · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: cannons

This is test 9 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldiers	det
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
6	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 crackers	cc
8	crackers	cracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cannons	conj
9	?	?	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	do	past · do-support	the soldiers	cannons or crackers					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cannon=Eventuality

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

bells and drums, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 drums	cc
3	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bells	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bells	punct
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	1 bells	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

both, cannons and crackers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 cannons	det
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cannons	punct
3	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 crackers	cc
5	crackers	cracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cannons	conj

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

Option 3

only fireworks, no guns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	2 fireworks	advmod
2	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 guns	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 guns	det
5	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fireworks	conj

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

Option 4

both, cannons and crackers, and also bells and horns across the whole town square

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 cannons	det
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cannons	punct
3	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 crackers	cc
5	crackers	cracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cannons	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bells	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bells	cc
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 bells	advmod
9	bells	bell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cannons	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 horns	cc
11	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bells	conj
12	across	across	ADP	_	16 square	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 square	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 square	amod
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 square	compound
16	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bell	present				the whole town square			tree rules

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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