Test 6 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, p…

what did the fishermen say about the catch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fishermen · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fishermen	det
4	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 catch	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 catch	det
8	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the fishermen					about the catch	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they caught more fish that day than ever before, legit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caught	obj
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl:unmarked
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 before	mark
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 before	advmod
9	before	before	ADV	_	2 caught	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 legit	punct
11	legit	legit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	they	more fish			day	legit obl; before property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

Option 2

the catch was the biggest they had ever seen, legit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 catch	det
2	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 biggest	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 biggest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 biggest	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 seen	advmod
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 biggest	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 legit	punct
11	legit	legit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 biggest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the catch					legit obl; big property	tree rules
2	see	past · perfect	they				ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

they caught more fish that day than ever before in all the years of their lives, legit

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caught	obj
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl:unmarked
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 before	mark
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 before	advmod
9	before	before	ADV	_	2 caught	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 years	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 years	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 years	det
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 before	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 lives	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lives	nmod:poss
16	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 years	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 legit	punct
18	legit	legit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	they	more fish			day	legit obl; before property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

Option 4

they caught more fish that day than any crew had ever caught on this whole coast, legit fr

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caught	obj
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl:unmarked
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 caught	mark
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 crew	det
9	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caught	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 caught	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 caught	advmod
12	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 caught	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 coast	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 coast	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 coast	amod
16	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caught	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fr	punct
18	legit	legit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fr	amod
19	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	they	more fish			day	legit fr obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
2	catch	past · perfect · passive		any crew		this whole coast	ever		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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