Test 9 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, p…

what was the old man holding, like in his hand?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: hand

This is test 9 · ★ 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
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	1 what	nsubj
6	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 man	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hand	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 hand	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holding	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old man						tree rules
2	hold	gerund	the old man not said here	man's hand					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

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

a sealed letter with a red wax seal, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
2	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 letter	amod
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 seal	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 seal	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seal	amod
7	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seal	compound
8	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 letter	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 letter	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 letter	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seal	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

a wooden staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 staff	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 staff	amod
3	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

an open book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
2	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 book	amod
3	book	book	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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