Test 12 · ★ · Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the k…

Lowkey, what was the king reading?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: king reading

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 356 «Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the king naps under a tree and wakes at noon» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reading	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reading	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reading	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reading	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reading	compound
7	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lowkey	parataxis
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	the king reading					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 small ledger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A little book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
2	little	little	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.

Option 3

A little book his mother left for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 book	amod
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	nsubj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 book	appos
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	a little book					for him = he	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for he=Recipient

Option 4

A little book of old prayers and psalms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 book	amod
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 prayers	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prayers	amod
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 book	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 psalms	cc
8	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 prayers	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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