Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin bo…

lol the grocer's wife could talk and nod, which one was she better at?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: talk, be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1614 «Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin borrows a tongue and saves a book from fire» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 talk	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grocer	det
3	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 grocer	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 talk	aux
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nod	cc
9	nod	nod	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
11	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nod	appos
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 better	cop
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 better	nsubj
15	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 one	nmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	15 better	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	could	the grocer's wife						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	wife					well property	tree rules

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

nodding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	gerund							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root

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

Option 3

nod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nod	nod	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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