Test 3 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…

Wait, what did Peter say was in his basket?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Peter · What happens: wait, say, be · To what, where: basket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1785 «Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the ants and is set to sort the grain» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 basket	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 basket	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 basket	nmod:poss
10	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Peter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	is	past		Peter's basket	tree rules

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

Cinders, obviously, lol, the most worthless junk ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 obviously	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 Cinders	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 obviously	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 Cinders	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 junk	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 junk	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 worthless	advmod
9	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 junk	amod
10	junk	junk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cinders	conj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 junk	advmod

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

Option 2

Cinders, obviously, lol, what else would be in my basket though

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 obviously	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 Cinders	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 obviously	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 Cinders	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 basket	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 basket	nsubj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 what	advmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 basket	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 basket	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 basket	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 basket	nmod:poss
13	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cinders	conj
14	though	though	ADV	_	13 basket	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Cinders and my basket			my basket		though property	tree rules

Option 3

Pearls, obviously, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 obviously	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pearls	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 obviously	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 obviously	discourse

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cinders, obviously, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 obviously	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 Cinders	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 obviously	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 Cinders	discourse

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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