Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious l…

Mate, what was the lad trying to nick from the master's room?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, lad · What happens: be, try, nick · To what, where: lad, room

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1953 «English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious lad calls up a demon and nearly drowns in water» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lad	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 lad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lad	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 lad	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 nick	mark
9	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trying	xcomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 master	det
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 room	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 master	case
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nick	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the lad	the lad		tree rules
2	try	gerund	the lad not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	nick not said to happen	to-infinitive	the lad not said here		the master's room	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the silver-making tools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tools	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 silver	punct
4	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tools	compound
5	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the gold-making kit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kit	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 gold	punct
4	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kit	amod
5	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

the master's gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 master	det
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 master	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin		the master						nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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