Test 14 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…

Dead simple, what was Jack told to fell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: be, fall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 simple	amod
2	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 told	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 told	obj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	cop
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fell	mark
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	Jack					tell property	tree rules
2	fall not said to happen	past							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 hedge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

all the tall pines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 pines	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pines	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pines	amod
4	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the oaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

all the great trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 trees	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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