Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…

Where did Jack find his stick, cheers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: find · To what, where: stick

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1973 «English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Jack gets three magic gifts, loses two, and wins his sweetheart» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 find	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stick	nmod:poss
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cheers	punct
8	cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stick	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	Jack	Jack's stick and cheers					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic

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

In a shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 shop	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shop	det
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Off a bloke at a river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Off	off	ADP	_	3 bloke	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bloke	det
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bloke	nmod

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

Option 3

From an old man by the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 man	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod

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

Option 4

At home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 home	case
2	home	home	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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