Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

So what did the old woman want for the info?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: want

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 want	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 want	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 info	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 info	det
10	info	info	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the old woman					for the info	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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

the mum's old coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mum	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coat	amod
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the child's good shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoes	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 child	case
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoes	amod
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the mum's black hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hair	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mum	case
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the mum's long black hair and her ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hair	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mum	case
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ring	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ring	nmod:poss
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hair	conj

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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