Test 6 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

Real talk, what did the walnut crew try to chuck into the cart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, try, chuck · To what, where: walnut crew, Real talk, cart

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 try	obl:unmarked
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	9 try	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crew	det
7	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crew	compound
8	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 chuck	mark
11	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 try	xcomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 cart	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cart	det
14	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chuck	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	the walnut crew		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Eventuality
2	try	present	Real talk		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	chuck not said to happen	to-infinitive		the cart	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into cart=Destination

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 cart with the mule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cart	det
2	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 mule	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mule	det
5	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cart	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the walnuts with a fork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 walnuts	det
2	walnuts	walnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 fork	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fork	det
5	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walnuts	nmod

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

Option 3

the walnuts into the cart with a rope and a long pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 walnuts	det
2	walnuts	walnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 cart	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cart	det
5	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walnuts	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 rope	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rope	det
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cart	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pole	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pole	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pole	amod
12	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rope	conj

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

Option 4

the walnuts into the wooden cart using a big wooden fork and spade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 walnuts	det
2	walnuts	walnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 using	nsubj
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 cart	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cart	det
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cart	amod
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walnuts	nmod
7	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fork	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fork	amod
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fork	amod
11	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 using	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spade	cc
13	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fork	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund	the walnuts into the wooden cart	a big wooden fork and spade					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=Patient

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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