Test 11 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, p…

what did the old man call Alfred, like, to his face?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: call · To what, where: Alfred · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 341 «Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, part 1: Alfred shares his last bread and wine, then sees a vision» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 call	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 call	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 face	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 face	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	9 like	fixed
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 face	nmod:poss
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	the old man	Alfred				like man's face	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme alfred=Result

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

brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

my son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

my beloved son, Alfred of Wessex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
2	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Alfred	punct
5	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Wessex	case
7	Wessex	Wessex	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Alfred	nmod

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

Option 4

my dear son, the young king of England

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
2	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 king	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 king	amod
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 son	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 England	case
9	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 king	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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