Test 3 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: t…

lol the brothers called Cinderlad a what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: call · To what, where: Cinderlad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 what	det
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 called	advcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the brothers		Cinderlad				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cinderlad=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 · ✓ the right answer

ash-sitter, like he just bakes himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitter	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 ash	punct
3	sitter	sitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bakes	punct
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 bakes	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bakes	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 bakes	advmod
8	bakes	bake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sitter	acl:relcl
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 bakes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	present	he	himself = he					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product

Option 2

a total ash-sitter, like he just bakes himself in the hearth all day long

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sitter	det
2	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sitter	amod
3	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitter	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ash	punct
5	sitter	sitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bakes	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 bakes	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bakes	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 bakes	advmod
10	bakes	bake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sitter	acl:relcl
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 bakes	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hearth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hearth	det
14	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bakes	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bakes	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 bakes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	present	he	himself = he			day	in the hearth; long property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in hearth=Instrument

Option 3

like a worthless ash-sitter who bakes himself and never works a single day

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	6 sitter	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sitter	det
3	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sitter	amod
4	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitter	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ash	punct
6	sitter	sitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 bakes	nsubj
8	bakes	bake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sitter	acl:relcl
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 bakes	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 works	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 works	advmod
12	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bakes	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 day	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 works	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	present	a worthless ash sitter	himself = he					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
2	not work	present	a worthless ash sitter not said here				day		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

like a fire-napper, a total ash-lump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	5 napper	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 napper	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 napper	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fire	punct
5	napper	napper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lump	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lump	det
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lump	amod
9	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lump	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ash	punct
11	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 napper	appos

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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