Test 13 · ★ · Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries…

Yo, what's the King writing in the sand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King writing · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1424 «Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries the King away, and a mermaid offers to save him» 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	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 writing	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 writing	compound
7	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sand	det
10	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 writing	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the King writing in the sand						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 · ← Mova's choice

a sad letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 letter	amod
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a long letter asking the nymphs for mercy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 letter	amod
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 letter	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nymphs	det
6	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asking	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 mercy	case
8	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund	a long letter not said here		the nymphs			for mercy	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nymph=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sad verses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 verses	amod
2	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

lines of hope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 hope	case
3	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lines	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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