Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Fr…

What did Tom chalk on the door about the grub?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Tom chalk, door

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 124 «Household Tales, The Travels of Tom Thumb, part 27: the Frog becomes a Prince, Henry's bands break, and Tom Thumb ends up in a cow» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chalk	compound
4	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 grub	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grub	det
10	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Tom chalk		the door		about the grub	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chalk=Eventuality

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 right answer

Too many potatoes and not enough meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 potatoes	amod
3	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 meat	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 enough	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meat	amod
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 potatoes	conj

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

Option 2

Too few peas and far too much gravy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 few	advmod
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peas	amod
3	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gravy	cc
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 much	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gravy	amod
8	gravy	gravy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peas	conj

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

Option 3

The soup was cold and the cook had burnt every loaf of bread in the oven

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soup	det
2	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 burnt	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burnt	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 burnt	aux
9	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cold	conj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 loaf	det
11	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burnt	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 bread	case
13	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 loaf	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 oven	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 oven	det
16	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burnt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the soup					cold property	tree rules
2	burnt	past · perfect · passive		the cook		the oven			tree rules

Option 4

Cold mutton and too many carrots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mutton	amod
2	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carrots	cc
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 carrots	amod
6	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mutton	conj

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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