Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship…

yo, who is that old guy with the red fishes?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: old guy

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1415 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship turns black after the old man steals the ring» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 guy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 guy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 guy	cop
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 guy	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guy	amod
7	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 fishes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fishes	det
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fishes	amod
11	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 guy	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 guy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that old guy				with the red fishes	tree rules

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 sailor from the south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sailor	det
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 south	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 south	det
5	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailor	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A man who studied black arts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 studied	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 studied	nsubj
4	studied	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arts	amod
6	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 studied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study	past	a man	black arts					vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic

Option 3

A friend of the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 King	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 friend	nmod

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

Option 4

A fisherman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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