Test 6 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

What went missing from the soldier's pocket, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: go · To what, where: pocket

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 pocket	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pocket	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 soldier	case
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pocket	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past				the soldier's pocket and bruv		missing property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from pocket=Initial_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

His match-box and his last penny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 box	nmod:poss
2	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 match	punct
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 penny	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 penny	nmod:poss
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 penny	amod
8	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	conj

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

Option 2

His lighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 lighter	nmod:poss
2	lighter	lighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The little match-box that he kept by his heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 box	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
3	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 match	punct
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 kept	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 box	acl:relcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 heart	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heart	nmod:poss
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	the little match box				by his heart	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Theme by heart=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His match-box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 box	nmod:poss
2	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 match	punct
4	box	box	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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