Test 10 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetche…

Mad, what did the King send for just to be a pain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1452 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetches muslin from a millet seed and is sent for a princess» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 send	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 send	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 send	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 send	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 send	compound
7	send	send	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	13 pain	case
9	just	just	ADV	_	13 pain	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	13 pain	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 pain	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pain	det
13	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 send	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						for a pain	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 · ✓ the right answer

A needle with a tiny eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 needle	det
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 eye	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eye	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eye	amod
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needle	nmod

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

Option 2

A needle with a tiny eye and a hard test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 needle	det
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 eye	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eye	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eye	amod
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needle	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 test	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 test	det
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 test	amod
10	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needle	conj

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

Option 3

A needle with a tiny eye, to try them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 needle	det
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 try	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 eye	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eye	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eye	amod
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needle	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 try	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 try	mark
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 try	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	to-infinitive	a needle with a tiny eye	them = they					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

Option 4

A silver needle sharp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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