Test 11 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl give…

What did he pick from the stables for the war?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: pick · To what, where: stables

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 681 «Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl gives the prince a castle, bread and a battle win» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 pick	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pick	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pick	nsubj
4	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 stables	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stables	det
7	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pick	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 war	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 war	det
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pick	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past · do-support	he			the stables		for the war	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Theme from stable=Source for war=Asset

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 scruffy little pony, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pony	det
2	scruffy	scruffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pony	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pony	amod
4	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pony	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A poor lame horse, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
3	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horse	conj

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

Option 3

The shiniest white stallion in the stables, with a golden saddle, mate, sick

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stallion	det
2	shiniest	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 stallion	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stallion	amod
4	stallion	stallion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stables	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stables	det
7	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stallion	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saddle	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 saddle	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 saddle	det
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saddle	amod
12	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stallion	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saddle	vocative
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sick	punct
16	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saddle	amod

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

Option 4

A big black war horse, mate, trained to charge through the whole enemy line

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	compound
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trained	punct
9	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 horse	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 charge	mark
11	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trained	xcomp
12	through	through	ADP	_	16 line	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 line	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 line	amod
15	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 line	compound
16	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 charge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	participle							vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	charge	to-infinitive				the whole enemy line			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through line=Trajectory

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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