Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree, part 18: the tree is dressed fo…

Who was the bloke telling the stories, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bloke · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: bloke, stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1629 «Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree, part 18: the tree is dressed for Christmas, hears a story, and is then shut away in a dark loft» 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	4 bloke	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bloke	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bloke	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 telling	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 then	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 telling	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bloke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the bloke					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	the bloke not said here	the stories			then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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 right answer

"A little stout man, sat under the tree."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
4	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past	a little stout man			the tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location

Option 2

"The old nurse, bruv."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 nurse	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nurse	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nurse	amod
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nurse	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nurse	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 nurse	punct

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

Option 3

"A tall thin man, sat by it."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past	a tall thin man					by it	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by it=Location

Option 4

"A young footman, stood outside."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 footman	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 footman	amod
4	footman	footman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 footman	punct
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 stood	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand in a quote	past	a young footman					outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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