Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to los…

bro, what does "fagot" even mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro · What happens: mean

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1467 «Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to lose their sons in the forest, and Little Thumb leaves a trail of white pebbles» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mean	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	aux
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fagot	punct
6	fagot	fagot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fagot	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 mean	advmod
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	bro						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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

A tool for cutting big trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tool	det
2	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 cutting	mark
4	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tool	acl
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trees	amod
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cutting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund	a tool not said here	big trees					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A bundle of sticks for firewood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bundle	det
2	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sticks	case
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bundle	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 firewood	case
6	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sticks	nmod

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

Option 3

A loaf of bread from the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 loaf	det
2	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bread	case
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loaf	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loaf	nmod

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

Option 4

A kind of small bird in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bird	case
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod

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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