Test 1 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

Yo, who was the mega pirate who nicked the bell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mega pirate · What happens: be, nick · To what, where: mega pirate, bell

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 357 «Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the abbot's buoy bell and his own ship is wrecked on the rock» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 pirate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 pirate	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pirate	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pirate	det
6	mega	megapixel	X	_	7 pirate	compound
7	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 nicked	nsubj
9	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pirate	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bell	det
11	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nicked	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pirate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the mega pirate					tree rules
2	nick	past	the mega pirate	the bell					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient

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

Ralph lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lad	compound
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Old Tom the Robber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Tom	amod
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Robber	det
4	Robber	Robber	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tom	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ralph the Rover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rover	det
3	Rover	Rover	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ralph	appos

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

Option 4

Captain Gray, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Gray	nmod:desc
2	Gray	Gray	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Gray	appos

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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