Test 13 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

Lol, what does the witch want for telling the way?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: want, tell · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1188 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins run off, reach a shut hut, and overhear swallows talking about a queen and a crystal cradle» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 does	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 telling	mark
9	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 want	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 telling	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	gerund		the way					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient

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

a silver ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a bag of silver coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 coins	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bag	nmod

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

Option 3

a silver key from the chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 key	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 key	amod
3	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 chest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chest	det
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 key	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

water from the fountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 fountain	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fountain	det
4	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 water	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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