Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: t…

what did the old man want to stop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: want, stop

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» 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	6 want	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the old man						tree rules
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 noise	det
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the thieves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thieves	det
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

losing his meadow grass each summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grass	nmod:poss
3	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grass	compound
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 losing	obj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 summer	det
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 losing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		his meadow grass			summer		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

losing his whole crop every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 crop	nmod:poss
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crop	amod
4	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 losing	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 losing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		his whole crop			year		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Eventuality

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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