Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

ok, which thing did she tell the staff to sharpen, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thing · What happens: tell, sharpen · To what, where: staff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 thing	det
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 staff	det
9	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sharpen	mark
11	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sharpen	vocative
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	which thing	the staff					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent staff=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sharpen not said to happen	to-infinitive						mate vocative	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 swords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the knives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the axes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the pots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pots	det
2	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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