Test 6 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end an…

Wait, what's a manteau, is it a snack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, manteau · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: manteau, snack

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1429 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end and Cinderella's wish for the ball» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 manteau	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 manteau	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 manteau	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 manteau	det
6	manteau	manteau	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 snack	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 snack	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 snack	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 snack	det
11	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		a manteau	tree rules
3	is a	present	manteau	a snack	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 little cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A kind of snack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 snack	case
4	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's a fancy old coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 coat	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coat	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coat	det
4	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coat	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coat	amod
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fancy old coat					tree rules

Option 4

It's a fancy old hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hat	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hat	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hat	det
4	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hat	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hat	amod
6	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fancy old hat					tree rules

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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