Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides und…

what did the eldest sister say the gardener's job was like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eldest sister, gardener · What happens: say, job · To what, where: job · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1505 «Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides under a bed, follows the princesses to a magic ball, and Lina catches on» 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 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sister	det
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 sister	amod
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gardener	det
8	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 job	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 gardener	case
10	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 like	cop
12	like	like	INTJ	_	10 job	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the eldest sister	the gardener's job					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme job=Manner
2	job		the gardener						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

a charming profession, a cottage by the park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 profession	det
2	charming	charming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 profession	amod
3	profession	profession	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cottage	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 profession	appos
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 park	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 park	det
9	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cottage	nmod

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

Option 2

a charming profession with a cottage by the park for his family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 profession	det
2	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 profession	amod
3	profession	profession	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cottage	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 profession	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 park	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 park	det
9	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 profession	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 family	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 family	nmod:poss
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 park	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charm	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

a charming profession, a cottage by the park and a garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 profession	det
2	charming	charming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 profession	amod
3	profession	profession	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cottage	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 profession	appos
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 park	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 park	det
9	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cottage	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 garden	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 profession	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a humble job with a little house nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 job	det
2	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 job	amod
3	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 house	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 job	nmod
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	7 house	advmod

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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