Test 9 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…
Who paid him to carry lover news, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pay, carry · To what, where: him, lover news
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 paid | nsubj |
| 2 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 paid | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 carry | mark |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 paid | advcl |
| 6 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 news | compound |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 news | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 paid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | him = he | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset | |||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | lover news and mate | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=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
Married women
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 women | amod |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nobles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The ladies of the court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ladies | det |
| 2 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 court | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 court | det |
| 5 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ladies | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ladies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1090-pg29021-part15/t9/