Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

Dead funny, what's Mr Miacca sitting on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mr · What happens: sit on

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1967 «English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca with a sofa leg and runs home» 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 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sitting	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 sitting	obj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	aux
6	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	nsubj
7	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mr	flat
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 sitting	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit on	present · progressive	Mr						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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 bench

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bench	det
2	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The sofa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Stool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chair	det
2	chair	chair	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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