Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming…

What was Charming carrying, the little dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: charm, carry · To what, where: little dog

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1459 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming is freed, sent to win the Princess, and helped on the road by a carp, a raven and an owl» 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	4 carrying	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carrying	aux
3	Charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 carrying	nsubj
4	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carrying	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carrying	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 carrying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charm	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	carry	past · progressive		the little dog					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme what=Beneficiary dog=Value

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 tiny pretty dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A little fluffy cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A tiny pretty dog with a golden collar and a bell on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
3	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 collar	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 collar	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 collar	amod
8	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bell	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bell	det
11	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 collar	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bell	nmod

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

Option 4

A tiny brown rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rabbit	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rabbit	amod
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rabbit	amod
4	rabbit	rabbit	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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