Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki…

how did the King and Prince chat, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: do, chat · To what, where: chat

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chat	nmod:poss
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Prince	cc
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	conj
7	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	2 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the King and Prince's chat					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Eventuality
2	chat		the King and Prince						nom chat «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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

they sent little notes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 notes	amod
4	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	they	little notes					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme

Option 2

they shouted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	they						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

by mime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 mime	case
2	mime	mime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they wrote stuff down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 wrote	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	past	they	stuff					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

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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