Test 11 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

who's Adam in the garden, according to Mark Twain, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, accord · To what, where: Adam, garden

This is test 11 · ★ 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 Adam	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Adam	cop
3	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Adam	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Mark	punct
8	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 Mark	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 according	fixed
10	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Adam	conj
11	Twain	Twain	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mark	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Mark	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	10 Mark	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Adam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Adam and Mark		the garden			tree rules
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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

Mark Twain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Twain	Twain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mark	flat

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Andrew Lang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Andrew	flat

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

Option 3

Miss Thackeray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Thackeray	Thackeray	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Miss	flat

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

Option 4

Twain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twain	Twain	PROPN	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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