Test 9 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…

Mate, how did the snake show up at the palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, show up · To what, where: snake, palace

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 show	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the snake					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Eventuality
2	show up	present	Mate			the palace			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

in a golden carriage with six white elephants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 carriage	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 carriage	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 carriage	amod
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 elephants	case
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 elephants	nummod
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 elephants	amod
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carriage	nmod

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

Option 2

in a red coach with six black horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 coach	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coach	det
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coach	amod
4	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 horses	case
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 horses	nummod
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horses	amod
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 coach	nmod

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

Option 3

in a huge golden carriage with six white elephants and a band of drummers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 carriage	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 carriage	det
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 carriage	amod
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 carriage	amod
5	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 elephants	case
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 elephants	nummod
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 elephants	amod
9	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carriage	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 band	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 band	det
12	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 elephants	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 drummers	case
14	drummers	drummer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 band	nmod

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

Option 4

in a golden carriage with six white elephants and twelve grooms riding ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 carriage	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 carriage	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 carriage	amod
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 elephants	case
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 elephants	nummod
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 elephants	amod
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carriage	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grooms	cc
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 grooms	nummod
11	grooms	groom	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 elephants	conj
12	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 grooms	acl
13	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	12 riding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund	twelve grooms not said here					ahead property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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