Test 14 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…

Dead quick, what was Percinet's gift meant to help with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quick gift · What happens: be, mean, help · To what, where: quick gift

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 quick	amod
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gift	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 quick	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 gift	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gift	cop
6	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gift	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Percinet	case
8	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meant	nsubj
9	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 help	mark
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 meant	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	11 help	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 meant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		Percinet's quick gift	tree rules
2	mean	past	Percinet's quick gift		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	Percinet's quick gift not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

the wedding

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	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

her difficulties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 difficulties	nmod:poss
2	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

her bad dreams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dreams	nmod:poss
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dreams	amod
3	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream		her = she						nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

her troubles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 troubles	nmod:poss
2	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trouble		her = she						nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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