Test 11 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…

Who was the peasant with the goats, anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: peasant

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1906 «Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule that three rogues swear is a donkey» 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	4 peasant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 peasant	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 goats	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goats	det
7	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 peasant	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goats	punct
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	7 goats	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 peasant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the peasant				with the goats	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 · ← Mova's choice

Simon's cousin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Simon	case
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A shepherd from the village nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 village	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shepherd	nmod
6	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	5 village	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A bloke from the village nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bloke	det
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 village	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bloke	nmod
6	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	5 village	advmod

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

Option 4

A farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	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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