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

Mate, who was the one who grabbed the front of the ship and yanked it under?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, one · What happens: be, grab, yank · To what, where: one, front

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 grabbed	nsubj
8	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 front	det
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grabbed	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ship	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ship	det
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 front	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 yanked	cc
15	yanked	yank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grabbed	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 yanked	obj
17	under	under	ADP	_	15 yanked	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate	the one	tree rules
2	grab	past	the one	the front of the ship	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent front=Theme
3	yank	past	the one not said here	front	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 fifth Simon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Simon	det
2	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Simon	amod
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The sixth Simon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sixth	det
2	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sixth	appos

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

Option 3

The fourth Simon, the strong one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Simon	det
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Simon	amod
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Simon	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The fourth Simon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Simon	det
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Simon	amod
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	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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