Test 11 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…

sus, who did the merchants say was the smartest princess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sus, merchants · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: smartest princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 princess	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sus	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchants	det
6	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 princess	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
10	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 princess	amod
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 princess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	sus		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the merchants		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	sus	the smartest princess	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 · ✓ the right answer

Princess Helena

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Princess	appos

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

Option 2

Lady Anastasia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lady	flat

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

Option 3

the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Helena

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helena	helena	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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