Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the B…
fr, what did the blacksmith actually love more than his bellows?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, blacksmith · What happens: do, love, bellow · To what, where: blacksmith, more
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 587 «Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the Bad Man and ends up as a light between heaven and earth» 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blacksmith | det |
| 6 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 love | advmod |
| 8 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blacksmith | acl:relcl |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 love | obj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 bellows | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bellows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 more | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fr | the blacksmith | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blacksmith=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | love | present | the blacksmith not said here | more | actually property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | bellow | fr | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: 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
rum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rum | rum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
his dram
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dram | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dram | dram | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
ale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
his anvil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 anvil | nmod:poss |
| 2 | anvil | anvil | 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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