Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for Fran…

what word did Joanna keep saying to him, like a broken record?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: word · What happens: keep, say, break · To what, where: Joanna · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1016 «Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for France, and Knud wanders off to Nuremberg» 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	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
4	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 record	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 record	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 record	det
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 record	amod
13	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	what word		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	what word not said here	Joanna	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	break	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

companion of the willow tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 tree	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 companion	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

dear brother from childhood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brother	amod
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 childhood	case
4	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	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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