Test 11 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the o…
Dead funny, what did the gentleman reckon the offer was?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gentleman · What happens: be
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1675 «Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the oven» 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 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 funny | amod |
| 2 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reckon | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 reckon | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reckon | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gentleman | det |
| 7 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reckon | nsubj |
| 8 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 funny | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 offer | det |
| 10 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reckon | obj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reckon | cop |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 funny | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · do-support | the gentleman | reckon 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
no
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a trap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 trap | det |
| 2 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a lie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lie | det |
| 2 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 joke | det |
| 2 | joke | joke | 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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