Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…
Bro, what does the old man chuck between the horse's ears?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: old man chuck
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chuck | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chuck | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chuck | compound |
| 8 | chuck | chuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 ears | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chuck | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the old man chuck | between the horse's ears; Bro vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=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 ball of yarn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ball | det |
| 2 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 yarn | case |
| 4 | yarn | yarn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ball | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
An apple
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 apple | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A bunch of straw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bunch | det |
| 2 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 straw | case |
| 4 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bunch | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A golden ball from the old king's treasury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ball | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ball | amod |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 treasury | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ball | nmod |
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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