Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…
So John strolls in as a doctor with a wig and specs? Dead clever!
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: John · What happens: stroll in
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» 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
Sentence 1: So John strolls in as a doctor with a wig and specs?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 strolls | advmod |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 strolls | nsubj |
| 3 | strolls | stroll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 strolls | compound:prt |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 doctor | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 doctor | det |
| 7 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strolls | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 wig | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wig | det |
| 10 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strolls | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 specs | cc |
| 12 | specs | spec | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wig | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 strolls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroll in | present | John | as a doctor; with a wig and specs | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: Dead clever!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clever | amod |
| 2 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 clever | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
a grey wig and round spectacles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wig | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wig | amod |
| 3 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 spectacles | cc |
| 5 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spectacles | amod |
| 6 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wig | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a wig and spectacles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wig | det |
| 2 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 spectacles | cc |
| 4 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wig | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a hat and a cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hat | det |
| 2 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cloak | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloak | det |
| 5 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hat | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a beard and a mask
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 beard | det |
| 2 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mask | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mask | det |
| 5 | mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beard | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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