Test 12 · ★ · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom…

Man, what did the piper want for his job?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Man, piper · What happens: want, job

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» 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	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 piper	det
6	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 job	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 job	nmod:poss
10	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Man					for piper's job	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	job		piper						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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

A gros, dosh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gros	det
2	gros	gros	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dosh	punct
4	dosh	dosh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gros	conj

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

Option 2

A crown a head, proper cash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crown	det
2	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 head	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crown	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cash	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cash	amod
7	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crown	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A gros a head, proper dosh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gros	det
2	gros	gros	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 head	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gros	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dosh	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dosh	amod
7	dosh	dosh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gros	conj

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

Option 4

Some dosh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 dosh	det
2	dosh	dosh	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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