Test 10 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

what did Homer nick the old stories for?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Homer · What happens: nick · To what, where: old stories

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» 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	4 nick	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nick	aux
3	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nick	nsubj
4	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stories	amod
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nick	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	4 nick	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 nick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · do-support	Homer	the old stories					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary story=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The Odyssey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Odyssey	det
2	Odyssey	Odyssey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The great epic about the Trojan war and Achilles' rage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 epic	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 epic	amod
3	epic	epic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 war	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 war	det
6	Trojan	trojan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 war	amod
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 epic	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rage	cc
9	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rage	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 Achilles	case
11	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 war	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rage		Achilles						nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A long book of old fables and songs for young readers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 book	amod
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fables	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fables	amod
6	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 book	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 songs	cc
8	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fables	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 readers	case
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 readers	amod
11	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 book	nmod

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

Option 4

The Aeneid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Aeneid	det
2	Aeneid	Aeneid	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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