Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, p…

what was on that scrap of paper, in short?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: scrap

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1835 «Indian Fairy Tales, A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice, part 19: the cat wins back the ring, and the Brahman's wife sets out for the king» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 scrap	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scrap	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 scrap	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 scrap	det
5	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 paper	case
7	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scrap	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 short	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 short	case
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scrap	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scrap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				that scrap		of paper	tree rules
2	be								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

a short poem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a secret about the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 secret	det
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 secret	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

three pieces of advice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pieces	nummod
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 advice	case
4	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pieces	nmod

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

Option 4

a list of the debts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 list	det
2	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 debts	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 debts	det
5	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 list	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	list			the debts					nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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