Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…

Mate, what did the little girl actually flog on the street?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: flog · To what, where: Mate, street

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» 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	9 flog	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flog	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 flog	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flog	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 flog	advmod
9	flog	flog	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 street	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 street	det
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flog	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 flog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flog	past · do-support		Mate		the street		actually property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Patient on street=Location

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

knitted scarves and hats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knitted	knit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	scarves	scarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 knitted	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hats	cc
4	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scarves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knit	past		scarves and hats					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarf=Product

Option 2

hot chestnuts from a cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chestnuts	amod
2	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 cart	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cart	det
5	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chestnuts	nmod

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

Option 3

figs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

matches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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