Test 9 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…
That husband was dead dim, wasn't he? Which blunder?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband · What happens: be
This is test 9 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: That husband was dead dim, wasn't he?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 husband | det |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dim | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dim | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dim | amod |
| 5 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dim | punct |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dim | conj |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 he | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dim | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that husband | dim property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | husband | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: Which blunder?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 blunder | det |
| 2 | blunder | blunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 blunder | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Frock on upside down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 upside | case |
| 3 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Frock | nmod |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Frock | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
He put the baby's frock on upside down entirely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frock | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 baby | case |
| 6 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 upside | case |
| 8 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 put | advmod |
| 10 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 2 put | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | He | the baby's frock | upside | down, entirely property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent frock=Theme on upside=Destination |
Option 3
Frock on inside out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADV | _ | 1 Frock | advmod |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 out | advmod |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Frock | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Bonnet on backwards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonnet | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 backwards | case |
| 3 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 1 Bonnet | 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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