Test 14 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy pro…

Bro, what finished off the King's money?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: finish off · To what, where: money

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 finished	nsubj
4	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	9 money	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 money	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish off	past		the King's money				Bro vocative	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality money=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 ball and games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 games	cc
4	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ball	conj

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

Option 2

the cost of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cost	det
2	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cost	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost			gold					nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the wedding costs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wedding	det
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 costs	nsubj
3	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	the wedding						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the bills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bills	det
2	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1508-pg540-part5/t14/