Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldier…

What was the spoon meant to be, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spoon · What happens: be, mean

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1687 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldiers trick the Dragon with the answer to his riddle» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spoon	det
4	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meant	nsubj
5	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 be	mark
7	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 meant	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 meant	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is a	past		tree rules
2	mean	past	the spoon	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be not said to happen	to-infinitive	the spoon not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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

A whale's tooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 whale	det
2	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tooth	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 whale	case
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The rib of a whale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rib	det
2	rib	rib	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 whale	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 whale	det
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rib	nmod

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

Option 3

A fin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fin	det
2	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The jaw of a seal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jaw	det
2	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 seal	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seal	det
5	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jaw	nmod

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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