Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi…

what did the Moon reckon she smelt?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Moon · What happens: do, reckon, smelt

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Moon	det
4	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 smelt	nsubj
7	smelt	smelt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reckon	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	the Moon	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	smelt	infinitive	Moon	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

the sweet smell of a Christian man's flesh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 smell	det
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smell	amod
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 flesh	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flesh	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 man	case
9	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell		a Christian man's flesh						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

fresh bread and wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bread	amod
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wine	cc
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bread	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

mortal flesh and blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flesh	amod
2	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 blood	cc
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flesh	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

old tallow and smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tallow	amod
2	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 smoke	cc
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tallow	conj

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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