Test 6 · ★ · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

Allow it, what did the creature call Tom?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: allow, do · To what, where: it, creature call

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» 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	Allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Allow	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Allow	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 call	det
7	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	compound
8	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 call	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Allow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	imperative	you not said here	it					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
2	do	past		the creature call					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality

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 good lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lad	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lad	amod
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a clever little boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a fine young man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	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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