Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…
Mate, who got the mice on guard duty?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: get · To what, where: mice, guard duty
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mice | det |
| 6 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 duty | case |
| 8 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 duty | compound |
| 9 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Mate | the mice | guard duty | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on duty=Source |
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 red fox on watch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fox | amod |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 watch | case |
| 5 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fox | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a grey rat on guard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rat | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rat | amod |
| 3 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 guard | case |
| 5 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
three little red men on guard at the gate of the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 guard | case |
| 6 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 men | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guard | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gate | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a little mouse on sentry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mouse | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mouse | amod |
| 3 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sentry | case |
| 5 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mouse | nmod |
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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