Test 6 · ★ · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:…

What did the lad get for six shillings, proper dead cool?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad · What happens: do, get · To what, where: lad

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lad	acl:relcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 shillings	case
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 shillings	nummod
8	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cool	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cool	amod
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cool	amod
12	cool	cool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shillings	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the lad				for six shillings and proper dead cool	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality
2	get	present	the lad not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a grey singing cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cat	amod
3	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cat	compound
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a golden bird flying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 bird	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund	a golden bird not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	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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