Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol…

wait, what did the ants say the queen had?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ants, queen · What happens: wait, say, have · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ants	det
6	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the ants	tree rules
3	have	past	the queen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 hill with thousands of narrow tunnels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hill	det
2	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 thousands	case
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hill	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tunnels	case
6	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tunnels	amod
7	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thousands	nmod

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

Option 2

a mound of many chambers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mound	det
2	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 chambers	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chambers	amod
5	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mound	nmod

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

Option 3

a palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a palace with seven hundred passages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 palace	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 passages	case
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hundred	compound
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 passages	nummod
6	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 palace	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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