Test 11 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

Who told the youth to dress up as a stable-lad, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell, dress up · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dress	mark
6	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 dress	compound:prt
8	as	as	ADP	_	12 lad	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lad	det
10	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lad	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 stable	punct
12	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dress	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 then	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dress	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			the youth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic
2	dress up not said to happen	to-infinitive					then	as a stable lad	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

The old hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hare	amod
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The grey owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owl	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 owl	amod
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The little hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hare	amod
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	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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