Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is…

Be honest, what did the pot smell like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, do · To what, where: pot smell

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1733 «Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is refused by the Princess and becomes a swineherd» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 honest	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smell	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smell	compound
8	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	8 smell	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					honest property	tree rules
2	do	past		the pot smell					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Eventuality

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

smoke from the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 fire	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smoke	nmod

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

Option 2

rotten meat and fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 meat	amod
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fish	cc
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meat	conj

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

Option 3

burnt bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bread	amod
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

what dinner was ready

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 ready	nsubj
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						ready property	tree rules

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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