Test 7 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

who's the bloke who wrote the intro, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bloke · What happens: be, write · To what, where: bloke, intro

This is test 7 · ★ 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	4 bloke	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bloke	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 wrote	nsubj
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bloke	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 intro	det
8	intro	intro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrote	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	6 wrote	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bloke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the bloke					tree rules
2	write	past	the bloke	the intro					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intro=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 · ← Mova's choice

Mr. Lang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Lang	nmod:desc
2	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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 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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