Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is c…

Who wouldn't eat the dinner, like seriously?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: not eat · To what, where: dinner

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1945 «English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is crushed by a millstone after the bird sings the truth» 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 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dinner	det
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seriously	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 seriously	case
9	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	would		the dinner				seriously property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

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

the youngest little boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 boy	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the little boy and his father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 father	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the little boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	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.

Option 4

the father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	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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