Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

Sus, what did the chamberlain put the babies in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: do, put in · To what, where: chamberlain, babies

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sus	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chamberlain	det
6	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 babies	det
9	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	7 put	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Sus	the chamberlain					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamberlain=Eventuality
2	put in	past	Sus	the babies					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent baby=Goal

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 silver chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chest	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chest	compound
3	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a crystal cradle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a wooden crate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a little wicker basket lined with soft cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 basket	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 basket	amod
3	wicker	wicker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 basket	compound
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 basket	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cloth	case
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cloth	amod
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	line	participle		a little wicker basket not said here				with soft cloth	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme

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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