Test 10 · ★ · Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 3…

Lowkey, what was the boy whacking with his stick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey, boy · What happens: be, whack · To what, where: boy

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore him» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 boy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lowkey	appos
7	whacking	whack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 boy	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 stick	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stick	nmod:poss
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whacking	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	the boy					tree rules
2	whack	gerund	the boy not said here					with boy's stick	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with stick=Instrument

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 bark of the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bark	det
2	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bark	nmod

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

Option 2

the cherries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the tops of the flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tops	det
2	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tops	nmod

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

Option 4

the leaves of the oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaves	det
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 oak	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oak	det
5	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	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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