Test 12 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast…

Ok, what did the lady say the guys were acting like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lady, guys · What happens: say, act · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2065 «A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast on golden thrones, then turn into hogs» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ok	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guys	det
9	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 acting	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 acting	aux
11	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 say	ccomp
12	like	like	INTJ	_	11 acting	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the lady						tree rules
2	act	past · progressive	the guys						vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

A hog-pen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pen	det
2	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pen	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 hog	punct
4	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A cow-shed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shed	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 cow	punct
4	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Like a dirty pen for cattle and sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 pen	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pen	det
3	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pen	amod
4	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 cattle	case
6	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pen	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sheep	cc
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cattle	conj

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

Option 4

A pigsty full of rotten mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pigsty	det
2	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pigsty	amod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mud	case
5	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mud	amod
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl

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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