Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three…

What did the brothers call Cinderlad, like, when they were being mean?

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

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1492 «Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three golden apples» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 call	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 mean	mark
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 mean	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mean	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	cop
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 mean	cop
14	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 call	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	the brothers		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	brothers = brother	mean property	tree rules

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

Black rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rat	amod
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Sooty pig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sooty	sooty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pig	amod
2	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A smelly wild animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 animal	det
2	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animal	amod
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animal	amod
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A dirty black creature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 creature	det
2	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
4	creature	creature	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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