Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…

Mate, who did the princess say she knew?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, say, know · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the princess	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Mate		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	past	Mate		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

that beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 beggar	det
2	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

that wee boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 boy	det
2	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

that boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	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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