Test 11 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…

Mate, what did Laptitza promise to hand over?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Laptitza · What happens: promise, hand over · To what, where: Mate

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 promise	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	aux
5	Laptitza	Laptitza	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 promise	nsubj
6	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hand	mark
8	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promise	xcomp
9	over	over	ADP	_	8 hand	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	Laptitza	Mate					vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hand over not said to happen	to-infinitive	Laptitza not said here						vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Two twin boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 boys	nummod
2	twin	twin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boys	compound
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

A son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A herd of cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 herd	det
2	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 cows	case
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 herd	nmod

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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