Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…

Wait, when was he meant to open the box?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, be, open · To what, where: box

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 meant	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 meant	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meant	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 meant	nsubj
6	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 open	mark
8	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 meant	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 box	det
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 open	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	he		mean property	tree rules
3	open not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the box		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=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 right answer

only when near death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	2 when	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	4 death	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 when	obl

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

Option 2

at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

on his birthday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 birthday	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 birthday	nmod:poss
3	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

when he gets married

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 married	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 married	nsubj:pass
3	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 married	aux:pass
4	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	present · passive		he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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