Test 5 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring and the o…

Lol, what did the horse say to rub on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse · What happens: do, say, rub on · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 rub	mark
9	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 rub	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the horse	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	rub on	to-infinitive	the horse not said here	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

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 sweat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the white foam from his mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foam	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 foam	amod
3	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 mouth	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouth	nmod:poss
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 foam	nmod

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

Option 3

the dirt from his flank and legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dirt	det
2	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 flank	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flank	nmod:poss
5	flank	flank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dirt	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 legs	cc
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flank	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the foam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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