Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…
No cap, what did the boys all scream for?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do · To what, where: boys
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boys | det |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 scream | det |
| 9 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 scream | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | no cap | the boys | 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 · ✓ the right answer
a drop of brandy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 drop | det |
| 2 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 brandy | case |
| 4 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a glass of wine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 glass | det |
| 2 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wine | case |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glass | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a sip of strong brandy from the Governor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sip | det |
| 2 | sip | sip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 brandy | case |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brandy | amod |
| 5 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sip | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Governor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Governor | det |
| 8 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brandy | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sip | strong brandy from the Governor | nom sip «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a bottle of brandy for each boy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bottle | det |
| 2 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 brandy | case |
| 4 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bottle | nmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bottle | nmod |
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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