Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

Bet, what did the goose-girl call the geese?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bet · What happens: call · To what, where: geese · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	nsubj:outer
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 call	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 call	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
6	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 girl	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 goose	punct
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 geese	det
11	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 call	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	Bet	the geese					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme goose=Result

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

wicked birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

little fiends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fiends	amod
2	fiends	fiend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

hissing little fiends and wicked pests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fiends	amod
3	fiends	fiend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hissing	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pests	cc
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pests	amod
6	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fiends	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	gerund		little fiends and wicked pests					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiend=Topic

Option 4

the little fiends of Purgatory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fiends	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fiends	amod
3	fiends	fiend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Purgatory	case
5	Purgatory	Purgatory	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fiends	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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