Test 15 · ★ · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…

Did the sheep have jewels round its legs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sheep · What happens: have · To what, where: jewels

This is test 15 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sheep	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 legs	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jewels	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the sheep	jewels				round its legs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Patient

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

ribbons of blue silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 silk	case
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 silk	amod
4	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ribbons	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

strings of great pearls tied with red ribbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 pearls	case
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pearls	amod
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 strings	nmod
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 ribbon	case
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ribbon	amod
8	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle · passive		strings of great pearls				with red ribbon	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with ribbon=Co-Patient

Option 3

strings of great pearls and small golden bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 pearls	case
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pearls	amod
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 strings	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bells	cc
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bells	amod
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bells	amod
8	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 strings	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

strings of great pearls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 pearls	case
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pearls	amod
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 strings	nmod

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

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