Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…

mate, what is a diligence, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: be · To what, where: diligence

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 diligence	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 diligence	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 diligence	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 diligence	det
6	diligence	diligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mate	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	1 mate	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	mate and a diligence	a diligence					tree rules

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

an old stagecoach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stagecoach	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stagecoach	amod
3	stagecoach	stagecoach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a large old stagecoach full of passengers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stagecoach	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stagecoach	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stagecoach	amod
4	stagecoach	stagecoach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stagecoach	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 passengers	case
7	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl

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

Option 3

a horse train

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 train	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 train	compound
3	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

an old rattling stagecoach pulled by horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stagecoach	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stagecoach	amod
3	rattling	rattling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stagecoach	compound
4	stagecoach	stagecoach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stagecoach	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 horses	case
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	participle		a old rattling stagecoach not said here				by horses	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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