Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…

Mate, what did the lad smack the beast with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad · What happens: smack · To what, where: Mate

This is test 2 · ★ 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 smack	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smack	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 smack	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 smack	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smack	nsubj
7	smack	smack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beast	det
9	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smack	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	7 smack	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 smack	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smack	past · do-support	the lad	Mate					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient beast=Result

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 hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a bladder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a bladder full of gravel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a big stick from the hedge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stick	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stick	amod
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hedge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hedge	det
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stick	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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