Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…

Who was the sus old soldier chatting to Karen, fam?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sus old soldier · What happens: be, chat · To what, where: sus old soldier, Karen

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 soldier	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 soldier	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
4	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soldier	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soldier	amod
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 soldier	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Karen	case
9	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chatting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fam	punct
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Karen	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 soldier	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sus old soldier					tree rules
2	chat speech: other	gerund	the sus old soldier not said here		Karen				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: 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

the wicked old soldier of the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soldier	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soldier	amod
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soldier	nmod

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

Option 2

the strange old soldier who had a sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soldier	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soldier	amod
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 soldier	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sword	det
8	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the strange old soldier	a sword					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient

Option 3

the old clergyman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clergyman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clergyman	amod
3	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

the old soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soldier	amod
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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