Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…

Who gave the lieutenant a kiss in that poem?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give · To what, where: lieutenant, poem

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lieutenant	det
4	lieutenant	lieutenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kiss	det
6	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 poem	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 poem	det
9	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		the lieutenant		that poem			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lieutenant=Recipient kiss=Theme

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

A little girl of twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 twelve	case
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 girl	nmod

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

Option 2

His mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A little maid of seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 maid	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maid	amod
3	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 maid	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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