Test 9 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…
what book did he reckon the kids would dig?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: book, kids · What happens: reckon, dig
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reckon | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reckon | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reckon | nsubj |
| 5 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kids | det |
| 7 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dig | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 dig | aux |
| 9 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reckon | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | what book | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dig | would | the kids | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
The Grey True Ghost-Story Book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Book | det |
| 2 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Book | amod |
| 3 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Book | amod |
| 4 | Ghost | Ghost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Story | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ghost | punct |
| 6 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Book | compound |
| 7 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Grey True Ghost-Story Book and the Blue Fairy Book together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Book | det |
| 2 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Book | amod |
| 3 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Book | amod |
| 4 | Ghost | Ghost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Book | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ghost | punct |
| 6 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Book | compound |
| 7 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Book | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Book | det |
| 10 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Book | amod |
| 11 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Book | compound |
| 12 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Book | conj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 Book | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Red True Adventure Book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Book | det |
| 2 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 True | flat |
| 3 | True | True | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Book | compound |
| 4 | Adventure | Adventure | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Book | compound |
| 5 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A long collection of the oldest sea-stories from every corner of the world
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 collection | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 collection | amod |
| 3 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stories | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stories | det |
| 6 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 stories | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stories | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 collection | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 corner | det |
| 12 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stories | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 corner | 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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