Test 9 · ★ · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…

Wait, where did Miranda bury them, mate?

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

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bury	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 bury	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bury	aux
5	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bury	nsubj
6	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bury	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bury	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bury	past · do-support	Miranda	them = they				mate vocative	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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

under a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	3 stone	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

beside the castle wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	4 wall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wall	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wall	compound
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

at the foot of a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 foot	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foot	det
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 foot	nmod

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

Option 4

in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	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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