Test 8 · ★ · Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases A…

mate, what's a reindeer calf, like the young one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: be · To what, where: reindeer calf

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1194 «Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases Andras, who outwits him with reindeer magic and a daring leap» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 calf	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 calf	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 calf	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 calf	det
6	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calf	compound
7	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mate	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 one	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mate	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	mate and a reindeer calf and the young one	a reindeer calf					tree rules

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

The youngest reindeer in the herd, born last spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reindeer	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 reindeer	amod
3	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 herd	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 herd	det
6	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reindeer	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 born	punct
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reindeer	conj
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spring	amod
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 born	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle					spring		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A baby reindeer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A small reindeer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A young stag cub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cub	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cub	amod
3	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cub	compound
4	cub	cub	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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