Test 8 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, p…

who was in the middle of the light, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: middle

This is test 8 · ★ 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 middle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 middle	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 middle	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 middle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the middle		of the light	tree rules

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

a tall old man with long black hair and a grey beard, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 hair	case
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 beard	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 beard	det
11	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beard	amod
12	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hair	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
14	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 man	discourse

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

an old man with black hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hair	case
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod

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

Option 3

a young boy with red hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hair	case
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	nmod

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

Option 4

an old man with black hair and a white staff, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hair	case
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 staff	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 staff	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 staff	amod
10	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fr	punct
12	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	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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