Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife send…

Wait, what was the chest thing about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: chest thing

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 244 «English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife sends him back to tell a tale, and the king's son is trapped in a chest» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	compound
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	about	about	ADP	_	7 thing	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the chest thing					tree rules

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 cupboard for shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cupboard	det
2	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 shoes	case
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cupboard	nmod

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

Option 2

A bed for the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bed	det
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bed	nmod

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

Option 3

A secret stash of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stash	det
2	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stash	amod
3	stash	stash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stash	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stash			gold					nom stash «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Holes so the lad could breathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 breathe	nsubj
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	4 lad	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holes	nmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 breathe	aux
6	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	could	Holes so the lad						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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