Test 6 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

Lol, which door did the prince say to knock on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: door, prince · What happens: do, say, knock on · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 knock	mark
10	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 knock	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	which door	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the prince	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	knock on	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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

The silver door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 door	amod
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The stone wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wall	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wall	compound
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The big iron door on the north side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	compound
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
7	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 side	amod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The iron door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
2	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 door	amod
3	door	door	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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