Test 13 · ★ · Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus t…

What's sitting in the barrel that Ring can't stop staring at?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ring · What happens: sit, not stop, stare · To what, where: barrel

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1730 «Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus tries to drown Little Klaus and drowns the old driver by mistake, then a prince finds a gold ring in a barrel» 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	3 sitting	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 barrel	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 barrel	det
6	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 stop	mark
8	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stop	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 stop	advmod
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sitting	advcl
12	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	12 staring	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sitting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	sit	present · progressive		the barrel	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in barrel=Location
2	not stop	can	Ring		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	stare	gerund	Ring not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

A gold ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	compound
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Some old bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 bones	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bones	amod
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

A coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A silver key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 key	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 key	amod
3	key	key	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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