Test 7 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Count Piro: the fox wins a rich bri…
Nah, what did the fox want when he died, the mad thing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: do, want, die · To what, where: mad thing
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 702 «Italian Popular Tales, Count Piro: the fox wins a rich bride and tests his master's gratitude» 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 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 died | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 want | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 died | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | the fox | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die | past | fox | the mad thing | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 posh silver coffin and a big funeral
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coffin | det |
| 2 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coffin | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coffin | compound |
| 4 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 funeral | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 funeral | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 funeral | amod |
| 8 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coffin | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A flash silver coffin and a proper funeral
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coffin | det |
| 2 | flash | flash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coffin | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coffin | compound |
| 4 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 funeral | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 funeral | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 funeral | amod |
| 8 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coffin | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A flash silver coffin and a proper funeral with all the lords and ladies of the castle attending
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coffin | det |
| 2 | flash | flash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coffin | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coffin | compound |
| 4 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 funeral | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 funeral | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 funeral | amod |
| 8 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coffin | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 lords | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 lords | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lords | det |
| 12 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 coffin | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ladies | cc |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lords | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 attending | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 attending | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attending | compound |
| 18 | attending | attending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ladies | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A shiny gold box and a proper burial
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 2 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 box | amod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 box | compound |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 burial | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 burial | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 burial | amod |
| 8 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 box | 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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