Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa…

Fam, what did Graciosa find out about the feathers?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Graciosa · What happens: find out · To what, where: Fam

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 find	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fam	acl:relcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 find	compound:prt
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 feathers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feathers	det
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 find	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	past · do-support	Graciosa	Fam				about the feathers	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Impossible to tell apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 tell	mark
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Impossible	xcomp
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell apart speech: assert	to-infinitive						apart property	vn distinguish-23.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Hard to tell apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 tell	mark
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hard	xcomp
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell apart speech: assert	to-infinitive						apart property	vn distinguish-23.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Too alike to separate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 alike	advmod
2	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 separate	mark
4	separate	separate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 alike	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	separate	to-infinitive							vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Very colourful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 colourful	advmod
2	colourful	colourful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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.

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