Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…

Right, what did she give the kids instead of cake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: give · To what, where: kids

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 give	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kids	det
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	iobj
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	11 cake	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	she		the kids			instead cake	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient 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

Dirt in a mug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 mug	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mug	det
4	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dirt	nmod

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

Option 2

Stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sand in a tea-cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 cup	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cup	det
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cup	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tea	punct
6	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sand	nmod

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

Option 4

Salt in a saucer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 saucer	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 saucer	det
4	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Salt	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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