Test 9 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…
Bro, what did the king call Jesper's pearls at first?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jesper · What happens: do, pearl · To what, where: king call
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 call | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | compound |
| 7 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pearls | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Jesper | case |
| 10 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 call | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 first | case |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 did | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king call Jesper's pearls | Bro vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pearl | Jesper | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: 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
Worthless junk, deadass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 junk | amod |
| 2 | junk | junk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 deadass | punct |
| 4 | deadass | deadass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 junk | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The finest ever, deadass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 finest | det |
| 2 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 finest | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 deadass | punct |
| 5 | deadass | deadass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 finest | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Trash, deadass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trash | trash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 deadass | punct |
| 3 | deadass | deadass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trash | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Just cinders, deadass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 cinders | advmod |
| 2 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 deadass | punct |
| 4 | deadass | deadass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cinders | conj |
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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