Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth…

Nosy lads peeked through the keyhole, who did they tell?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nosy lads, keyhole · What happens: peek, tell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lads	amod
2	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 peeked	nsubj
3	peeked	peek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 keyhole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 keyhole	det
6	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peeked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 tell	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 keyhole	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 peeked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peek	past	Nosy lads					through the keyhole	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through keyhole=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the keyhole						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

the King's chamberlain at the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chamberlain	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chamberlain	nmod

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

Option 2

the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the head groom and the stable master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 groom	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 groom	compound
3	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 master	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 master	det
6	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 master	amod
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 groom	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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