Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

yo, what did the thieves call the money they split?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thieves · What happens: do, call, split · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thieves	det
6	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 money	det
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 split	nsubj
11	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 money	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	the thieves	the money	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient
3	split	past	thieves = thief	the money not said here	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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

cash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

booty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	booty	booty	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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