Test 5 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs…

Who was the sick swineherd with the two dogs, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: sick swineherd

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 664 «Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs catch a hairy thief, and a prince gets three magic apples» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 swineherd	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swineherd	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swineherd	det
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swineherd	amod
5	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 dogs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dogs	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 dogs	nummod
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swineherd	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	5 swineherd	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 swineherd	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sick swineherd				with the two dogs	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 wizard with a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wizard	det
2	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wizard	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The boy with Psst and Hush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Psst	case
4	Psst	Psst	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Hush	cc
6	Hush	Hush	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Psst	conj

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

Option 3

A miller's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 miller	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A knight called Hush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knight	acl
4	Hush	Hush	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a knight not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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