Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-maid buys one more ni…
Cheers, what does a draught mean in this bit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cheers · What happens: do, mean · To what, where: draught
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1870 «Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-maid buys one more night and wins back her husband, and Turritella becomes an owl» 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 | Cheers | cheer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cheers | acl:relcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 draught | det |
| 6 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bit | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bit | det |
| 10 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mean | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Cheers | a draught | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Cheers | in this bit | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in bit=Attribute |
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 drink of medicine that the King takes at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 drink | det |
| 2 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 medicine | case |
| 4 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drink | nmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 takes | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 takes | nsubj |
| 8 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 drink | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 takes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | the King | a drink of medicine | night | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
Option 2
A glass of medicine for the King to drink in bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 glass | det |
| 2 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 medicine | case |
| 4 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glass | nmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 glass | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 drink | mark |
| 9 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 glass | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drink | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | to-infinitive | bed | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
A gift for the Queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Queen | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gift | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A drink of medicine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 drink | det |
| 2 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 medicine | case |
| 4 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drink | 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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