Test 13 · ★ · Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Pr…

what did the dudes say the towers were, like rumors?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dudes, towers · What happens: do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1427 «Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Princess pricks her hand, falls asleep, and wakes when a Prince finds her» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dudes	det
4	dudes	dude	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 towers	det
7	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rumors	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 rumors	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rumors	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 rumors	case
11	rumors	rumor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the dudes		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the towers	like rumors	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 ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a tomb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

haunted old castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	haunted	haunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 castle	amod
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 haunted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haunt	past		old castle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus castle=Experiencer

Option 4

a crumbling old fort

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fort	det
2	crumbling	crumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fort	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fort	amod
4	fort	fort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crumble	gerund							vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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