Test 3 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

what did the mum save her coins up for, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum · What happens: save up, coin · To what, where: coins

This is test 3 · ★ 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	5 save	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 save	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	nsubj
5	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 coins	nmod:poss
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 save	obj
8	up	up	ADV	_	5 save	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 like	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 for	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	5 save	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save up	past · do-support	the mum	mum's coins					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary coin=Theme
2	coin		mum						nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

School, so he could learn proper stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	School	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 learn	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 learn	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learn	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	aux
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 School	conj
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stuff	amod
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	could	he	proper stuff					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic

Option 2

A ticket to go over the sea and find his dad who went off to war

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ticket	det
2	ticket	ticket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ticket	acl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 find	cc
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dad	nmod:poss
11	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dad	acl:relcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 went	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 war	case
16	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive			the sea		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial_Location
2	find	infinitive		his dad			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Topic
3	go off	past	his dad			to war	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A cow and some land for the farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 land	cc
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cow	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 farm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farm	det
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cow	nmod

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

Option 4

A fancy house in the posh bit of town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 bit	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 town	case
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	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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