Test 8 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…

where'd the nurse stash the box, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nurse · What happens: stash · To what, where: box

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1844 «Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden in the dog and the cow, the Queens' plots» 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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 stash	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 stash	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nurse	det
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stash	nsubj
5	stash	stash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stash	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stash	infinitive	the nurse	the box and fam					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme

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

under the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	3 palace	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

under a tall old tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	5 tree	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

in a hole out on the plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 hole	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hole	det
3	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 hole	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 plain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plain	det
7	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hole	nmod

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

Option 4

beside the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	4 bank	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bank	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bank	compound
4	bank	bank	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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