Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…

Did his dad give him a cool gadget, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: give · To what, where: cool gadget, him

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gadget	det
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gadget	amod
8	gadget	gadget	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 give	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	his dad	a cool gadget	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gadget=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

a brass pocket watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 watch	det
2	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pocket	compound
3	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watch	compound
4	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a fat wallet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wallet	det
2	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wallet	amod
3	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a shiny golden snuff-box and a cracking old horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 box	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 box	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 box	amod
4	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 box	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 snuff	punct
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 horse	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
9	cracking	cracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 horse	amod
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 box	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a golden snuff-box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
3	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snuff	punct
5	box	box	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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