Test 11 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood,…

The merchants reckoned Transylvania had Hamel kids, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchants, Transylvania · What happens: reckon, have · To what, where: Hamel kids

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1553 «Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood, part 1: a clever girl, a sly wolf, and a hood that burns» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchants	det
2	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reckoned	nsubj
3	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Transylvania	Transylvania	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reckoned	ccomp
6	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kids	compound
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reckoned	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 reckoned	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckoned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	the merchants						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	Transylvania	Hamel kids					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient

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

nah, they didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	they						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, that was the big guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 guess	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 guess	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 guess	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 guess	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guess	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guess	amod
7	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	the big guess					tree rules

Option 3

nah, that was a wild guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 guess	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 guess	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 guess	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 guess	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guess	amod
7	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	a wild guess					tree rules

Option 4

yeah, that was their theory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 theory	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 theory	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 theory	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 theory	cop
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 theory	nmod:poss
6	theory	theory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	their theory					tree rules

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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