Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to ston…

who sold the jam to the tailor, a bloke or a woman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: sell · To what, where: jam, tailor

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jam	det
4	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 tailor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tailor	det
7	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bloke	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bloke	det
10	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tailor	appos
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 woman	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bloke	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past		the jam	the tailor				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jam=Theme to tailor=Recipient

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 peasant woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A baker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 baker	det
2	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A stranger from a distant land who had come by ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 land	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 land	det
5	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stranger	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 land	acl:relcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 ship	case
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	a distant land					by ship	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ship=Location

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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