Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth…

Who was sat at the steering bit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sit · To what, where: steering bit

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 sat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	aux:pass
3	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 bit	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	steering	steering	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	compound
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · passive				the steering bit			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at bit=Location

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 brother at the steering bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 bit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	steering	steering	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	compound
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

her brother, the stable-boy who swapped clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clothes	nmod:poss
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
5	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 stable	punct
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	appos
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 swapped	nsubj
9	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	acl:relcl
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	the stable boy						vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sister	det
2	sister	sister	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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