Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

Where did the old man bag the lady's painting, like, at the car boot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: old man bag

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bag	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bag	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bag	compound
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 painting	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 lady	case
10	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	10 painting	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 boot	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 boot	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boot	det
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boot	compound
17	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old man bag					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Eventuality

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

at the fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 fair	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fair	det
3	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

at a country auction house in the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	5 house	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 auction	compound
4	auction	auction	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	compound
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 spring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spring	det
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod

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

Option 3

at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 home	case
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

at the broker's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 broker	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 broker	det
3	broker	broker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	's	's	PART	_	3 broker	case

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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