Test 9 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess…

What was the Enchanter holding on his knee, like a little lapdog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Enchanter · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: knee

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1881 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 18: the Enchanter's golden feast, fireworks and chariot ride to 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Enchanter	det
4	Enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 Enchanter	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 knee	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 knee	nmod:poss
8	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lapdog	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 lapdog	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lapdog	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lapdog	amod
13	lapdog	lapdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Enchanter						tree rules
2	hold	gerund	the Enchanter not said here			his knee		like a little lapdog	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on knee=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

a tawny lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a small dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a tiny golden lapdog with a silver collar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lapdog	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lapdog	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lapdog	amod
4	lapdog	lapdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 collar	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 collar	det
7	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 collar	amod
8	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lapdog	nmod

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

Option 4

a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	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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