Test 8 · ★ · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

Ha, what's Jonas calling Walter by the end, like a chicken?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jonas · What happens: be, call · To what, where: Jonas, Walter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ha	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Jonas	cop
5	Jonas	Jona	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 what	nsubj
6	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Jonas	acl
7	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 calling	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chicken	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 chicken	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chicken	det
14	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Jonas					tree rules
2	call	gerund	Jonas not said here		Walter		by the end		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent walter=Recipient

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

A chicken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chicken	det
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A thief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A coward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coward	det
2	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A traitor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 traitor	det
2	traitor	traitor	NOUN	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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