Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head make…

Lol, what did the head call the second task?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: head · What happens: call · To what, where: second task · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1235 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head makes the sultan's hill into a garden» 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	_	7 call	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 call	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 call	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 task	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 task	amod
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	the head	the second task					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme task=Result

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

little game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 game	amod
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

mere nonsense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nonsense	amod
2	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

child's play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 play	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 child	case
3	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play		child						nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

a task fit for a small child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fit	det
2	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fit	compound
3	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 child	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fit	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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