Test 12 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik ou…

What did he actually spend the gold on, fam?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, spend on · To what, where: gold

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1320 «Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik outwits the lion, the dragons and the black man, then takes the golden bowl and diamond lance from Rogear» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spend	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 spend	advmod
5	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gold	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spend	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	5 spend	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spend	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	spend on	present	he	the gold				fam obl; actually property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Asset

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 · ✓ the right answer

A brown velvet suit and a white horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 suit	det
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 suit	amod
3	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suit	compound
4	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 horse	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suit	conj

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

Option 2

A new velvet cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cap	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cap	amod
3	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cap	compound
4	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A black silk suit and a brown mare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 suit	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 suit	amod
3	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suit	compound
4	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mare	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mare	det
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mare	amod
8	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suit	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A white horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	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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