Test 4 · ★ · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

Mate, what did the miller say got his fattest ram?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: miller, Mate · What happens: say, get · To what, where: Mate, fattest ram · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 miller	det
6	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ram	nmod:poss
10	fattest	fat	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 ram	amod
11	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the miller	Mate					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	get	past	Mate	miller's fattest ram					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ram=Stimulus

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

A pack of wolves from the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pack	det
2	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wolves	case
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pack	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 hills	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wolves	nmod

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

Option 2

Thieves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Badgers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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