Test 13 · ★ · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,…

Real talk, what was the old man told to make in his dream?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk, old man, man · What happens: be, tell, make, dream · To what, where: old man, dream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 man	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 man	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 dream	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dream	nmod:poss
14	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Real talk	the old man		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle		the old man not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here		man's dream	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	dream		man			nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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

A spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A mortar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A wooden mortar and pestle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mortar	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mortar	amod
3	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pestle	cc
5	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mortar	conj

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

Option 4

A large stone mortar for grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mortar	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mortar	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mortar	compound
4	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 grain	case
6	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mortar	nmod

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

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