Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the pr…

Wait, what's the red-hot pice thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: red hot pice thing

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1846 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the prince turns handsome, tricks his brothers-in-law and is refused at the gate» 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	_	10 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 thing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
9	pice	pice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	compound
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the red hot pice thing					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 coin on each arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coin	det
2	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 arm	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 arm	det
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coin	nmod

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

Option 2

A hot pice pressed onto each brother's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pice	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pice	amod
3	pice	pice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pice	acl
5	onto	onto	ADP	_	9 back	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 brother	det
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 back	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 brother	case
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	participle		a hot pice not said here		each brother's back			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent onto back=Trajectory

Option 3

A hot coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A hot coin on each back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coin	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coin	amod
3	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coin	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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