Test 12 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…
Ngl, what was the captain's wife cooking that night?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: wife cooking
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1639 «Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 28: the robbers buy the donkey and the guitar and are fooled again» 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cooking | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 cooking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cooking | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 captain | det |
| 6 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cooking | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 captain | case |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cooking | compound |
| 9 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cooking | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 cooking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ngl | the captain's wife cooking | night | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Lasagne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lasagne | lasagne | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Macaroni
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macaroni | macaroni | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Macaroni with cheese and a little bit of butter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macaroni | macaroni | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 cheese | case |
| 3 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Macaroni | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bit | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Macaroni | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 butter | case |
| 9 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Spaghetti and macaroni served with sauce and bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spaghetti | spaghetti | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 macaroni | cc |
| 3 | macaroni | macaroni | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spaghetti | conj |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Spaghetti | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sauce | case |
| 6 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 served | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bread | cc |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sauce | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | participle | Spaghetti and macaroni not said here | with sauce and bread | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sauce=Theme |
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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