Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

What's the milkmaid's big dream, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big dream, milkmaid · What happens: be, dream

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 milkmaid	det
4	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dream	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 milkmaid	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dream	amod
7	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the milkmaid's big dream				then		tree rules
2	dream		the milkmaid						nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 new frock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A nice cow to sell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cow	det
2	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cow	amod
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sell	mark
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cow	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A sick new frock for the fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 frock	det
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frock	amod
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frock	amod
4	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 fair	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fair	det
7	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frock	nmod

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

Option 4

A cool new hat for church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hat	det
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hat	amod
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hat	amod
4	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 church	case
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hat	nmod

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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