Test 4 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

Who snitched on the plan, like a proper grass?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: snitch · To what, where: plan

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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 snitched	nsubj
2	snitched	snitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 plan	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plan	det
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snitched	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grass	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 grass	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 grass	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grass	amod
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snitched	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 snitched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snitch speech: other	past				the plan		like a proper grass	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «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

a maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 maid	det
2	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a kind servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 servant	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 servant	amod
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the old cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a stable boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	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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