Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of…

Right, who turned up at the palace door trying to sell the mad jewels?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: turn up, try, sell · To what, where: palace door, mad jewels

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1157 «Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of ice is raised, and the ogre tricks the princess» 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	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 turned	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	compound
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
10	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 turned	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sell	mark
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 trying	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 jewels	det
14	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 jewels	amod
15	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sell	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	turn up	past		the palace door	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location
2	try	gerund			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mad jewels		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=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

a dwarf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dwarf	det
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a thief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the ogre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a jeweller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 jeweller	det
2	jeweller	jeweller	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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