Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…
Mate, which tragedy was he holding, like proper?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: hold
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 282 «Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys» 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 holding | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tragedy | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 tragedy | det |
| 4 | tragedy | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 holding | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 holding | nsubj |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 holding | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 proper | case |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 holding | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 holding | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · progressive | Mate and which tragedy | like proper | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
DAME TIGBRITH, five acts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DAME | DAME | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | TIGBRITH | TIGBRITH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 DAME | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 acts | punct |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 acts | nummod |
| 5 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 DAME | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
KING LEAR, four acts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KING | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 LEAR | compound |
| 2 | LEAR | lear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 acts | punct |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 acts | nummod |
| 5 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 LEAR | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A tragedy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tragedy | det |
| 2 | tragedy | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
DAME TIGBRITH, three acts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DAME | DAME | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | TIGBRITH | TIGBRITH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 DAME | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 acts | punct |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 acts | nummod |
| 5 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 DAME | appos |
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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