Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

ong, what did the glove man say about his hands?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: glove man · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	ong	ong	ADV	_	8 say	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ong	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 hands	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the glove man					about man's hands; ong property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

toasty warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	toasty	toasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 warm	amod
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

snug as a bug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snug	snug	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 bug	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bug	det
4	bug	bug	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 snug	nmod

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

Option 3

quite cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quite	quite	ADV	_	2 cool	advmod
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

toasty warm like a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	toasty	toasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 toasty	conj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 toasty	obl

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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