Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil: a curious l…

Was it a geranium the lad had to water, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lad · What happens: be, have · To what, where: geranium, water

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 geranium	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Was	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 geranium	det
4	geranium	geranium	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 water	mark
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a geranium					tree rules
2	have	past	the lad	water					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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 right answer

Yeah, a geranium

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 geranium	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 geranium	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 geranium	det
4	geranium	geranium	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, a tulip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tulip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tulip	det
4	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, a rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rose	det
4	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

No, a sunflower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 sunflower	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sunflower	det
4	sunflower	sunflower	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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