Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1…

Mate, what did the sexton get stuck in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, sexton · What happens: do, get

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1728 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1: Little Klaus loses his horse, then tricks a farmer with a squeaking sack» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
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 sexton	det
6	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 stuck	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	the sexton					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 big empty chest in the back room, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chest	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chest	amod
3	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chest	amod
4	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	compound
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chest	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chest	conj

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

Option 2

A wooden barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 barrel	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 barrel	amod
3	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A big empty chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chest	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chest	amod
3	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chest	amod
4	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A big empty chest that his missus had locked tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chest	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chest	amod
3	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chest	amod
4	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 locked	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 missus	nmod:poss
7	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 locked	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 locked	aux
9	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 chest	acl:relcl
10	tight	tight	ADV	_	9 locked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past · perfect · passive		his missus				tight property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient that=Result

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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