Test 5 · ★ · Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wi…

Who delivered the letter, the nurse or some servant?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: deliver · To what, where: letter

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1784 «Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wild horses and wins the princess with a magic knife.» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 delivered	nsubj
2	delivered	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 letter	det
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 delivered	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nurse	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nurse	det
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 letter	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 servant	cc
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 servant	det
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 letter	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 delivered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deliver	past		the letter and the nurse or some servant					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=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

A trusty servant from the royal kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 servant	det
2	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 servant	amod
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
6	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kitchen	amod
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 servant	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A trusty servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Her old nurse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nurse	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nurse	amod
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Some palace guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 guard	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guard	compound
3	guard	guard	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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