Test 6 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats se…

ngl the girl was sobbing, who does she actually want?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl girl · What happens: sob, want

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1227 «Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats seek the greatest husband» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 girl	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sobbing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sobbing	aux
5	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 want	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
10	actually	actually	ADV	_	11 want	advmod
11	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sobbing	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sobbing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	past · progressive	the ngl girl						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present · do-support						actually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 · ✓ the right answer

a young rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a fine suitor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a handsome young rat with a golden tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rat	det
2	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rat	amod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rat	amod
4	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 tail	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tail	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tail	amod
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rat	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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