Test 13 · ★ · The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dan…

What's piping mean then, like, a pipe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pipe, be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 362 «The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dances for a wolf is saved by the Shepherd Dogs» 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	4 mean	obj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	cop
3	piping	pipe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 mean	amod
4	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 mean	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	4 mean	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pipe	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pipe	det
10	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pipe	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present					then	mean property	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 kind of hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hat	case
4	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Playing a tune on a pipe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tune	det
3	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 pipe	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pipe	det
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		a tune		a pipe			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme

Option 3

Shouting loudly at sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Shouting	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 sheep	case
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund						at sheep; loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A type of bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 type	det
2	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bread	case
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 type	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	type			bread					nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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