Test 1 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

Yo, what did the dude snatch outta the barber's hand, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hand · What happens: do, innit · To what, where: snatch outta

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 outta	det
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snatch	compound
7	snatch	snatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 outta	compound
8	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 barber	det
10	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hand	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 barber	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hand	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the snatch outta					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	the barber's hand not said here						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 scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the hot towel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 towel	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 towel	amod
3	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the barber's silver shaving blade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 barber	det
2	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 silver	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 barber	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	shaving	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 silver	acl
6	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	gerund	the barber's silver not said here	blade					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the razor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 razor	det
2	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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