Test 12 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

So the clever wife had nothing on the wheel, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clever wife · What happens: have · To what, where: nothing, wheel

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wife	amod
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 had	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 wheel	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wheel	det
9	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the clever wife	nothing		the wheel			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

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

Just air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 air	advmod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Just empty thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 empty	advmod
2	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thread	amod
3	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Just invisible wool that nobody could ever see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 wool	advmod
2	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wool	amod
3	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 see	obj
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 see	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 see	advmod
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wool	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	nobody	invisible wool			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Just invisible wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 invisible	advmod
2	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wool	amod
3	wool	wool	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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