Test 6 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steal…

Ngl, what cargo did they blag on the ship, like the posh stuff?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cargo · What happens: blag · To what, where: ship

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 668 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steals the princess and sails off under the sea» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 blag	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 blag	obj
4	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blag	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blag	aux
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 blag	nsubj
7	blag	blag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 ship	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ship	det
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blag	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stuff	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 stuff	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stuff	det
14	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stuff	amod
15	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blag	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 blag	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blag	past · do-support	cargo			the ship		Ngl vocative	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

Silk and spices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 spices	cc
3	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Silk	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rich stuffs and pearls, plus silver plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stuffs	amod
2	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pearls	cc
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuffs	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plate	punct
6	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	8 plate	cc
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plate	compound
8	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuffs	conj

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

Option 3

Rich stuffs, pearls and gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stuffs	amod
2	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pearls	punct
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuffs	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 coins	cc
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coins	compound
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuffs	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Rich stuffs and pearls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stuffs	amod
2	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pearls	cc
4	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuffs	conj

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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