Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol…

bro, who did Mother Snail send to find a wife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: snail, find · To what, where: send, wife

This is test 11 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Snail	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Snail	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Snail	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Snail	aux
5	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Snail	nsubj
6	Snail	snail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	send	send	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Snail	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Snail	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wife	det
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Snail	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snail	past · do-support		send				bro vocative	vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent send=Location
2	find	to-infinitive		a wife					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic

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 wood-lice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lice	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lice	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wood	punct
4	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the flies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flies	det
2	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the white gnats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gnats	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gnats	amod
3	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the white gnats from the pond edge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gnats	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gnats	amod
3	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 edge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edge	compound
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gnats	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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