Test 10 · ★ · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…

What did Miranda carve on the bark, bro?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Miranda · What happens: carve · To what, where: bark

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for 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	4 carve	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carve	aux
3	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 carve	nsubj
4	carve	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bark	det
7	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carve	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bark	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 carve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past · do-support	Miranda			the bark and bro			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme on bark=Destination

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

the path to the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 path	det
2	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 castle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 path	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

their names and how they died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 names	nmod:poss
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 died	cc
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 died	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 names	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	names = name						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	name		their = they						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the sheep and the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dog	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheep	conj

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

Option 4

their names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 names	nmod:poss
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name		their = they						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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