Test 8 · ★ · Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a…
Innit, what was actually inside the pedlar's secret drawer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: be · To what, where: secret drawer
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1871 «Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a pedlar sells the Caliph a scroll that the learned Selim finds is Latin» 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drawer | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 drawer | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 drawer | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 11 drawer | advmod |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 11 drawer | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pedlar | det |
| 8 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawer | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 pedlar | case |
| 10 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drawer | amod |
| 11 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Innit | appos |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Innit | the pedlar's secret drawer | actually property | 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 silver key and a torn old letter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 key | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 key | amod |
| 3 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 letter | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 letter | det |
| 6 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 letter | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 letter | amod |
| 8 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 key | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
A gold ring and a dusty old book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ring | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ring | compound |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 book | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 book | det |
| 6 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 book | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 book | amod |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ring | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A black powder and a weird old scroll
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 powder | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 powder | amod |
| 3 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 scroll | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 scroll | det |
| 6 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scroll | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scroll | amod |
| 8 | scroll | scroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 powder | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A black powder, a weird old scroll and a little bag of silver coins
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 powder | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 powder | amod |
| 3 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scroll | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 scroll | det |
| 6 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scroll | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scroll | amod |
| 8 | scroll | scroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 powder | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bag | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bag | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bag | amod |
| 12 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scroll | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 coins | case |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coins | compound |
| 15 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bag | 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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