Test 1 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…

Mate, what did the old dame reckon plum stones were good for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old dame, plum stones · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: Mate

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1885 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine gets a white cow, then the Prince finds her and they ride off to the Leafy Palace» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dame	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dame	amod
7	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	plum	plum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stones	amod
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 good	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 good	cop
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reckon	ccomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	12 good	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the old dame	Mate					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	is	past	plum stones					good 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 · ✓ the right answer

Making a proper fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fire	amod
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		a proper fire					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product

Option 2

Firewood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Lighting the stove oven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lighting	light	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oven	det
3	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oven	compound
4	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lighting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	gerund		the stove oven					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Product

Option 4

Burning in a hearth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hearth	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hearth	det
4	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund				a hearth			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hearth=Location

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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