Test 10 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 4…

what's the deal with the old word fold, is it still a thing

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: thing, fold · What happens: be · To what, where: deal, thing

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 703 «Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 43: the youth hides the pigs and sheep and tricks the herdsman» 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 deal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thing	parataxis
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 fold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fold	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fold	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fold	compound
9	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deal	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 thing	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thing	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 thing	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thing	det
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a thing	the deal				with the old word fold	tree rules
2	is a	present	fold	a thing			still		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

a kind of old cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cheese	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cheese	amod
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod

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

Option 2

no, it's the old word for a well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 word	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 word	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the old word				for a well	tree rules

Option 3

yeah, a sheep pen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 pen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pen	det
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pen	compound
5	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah it's the pen where sheep sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 pen	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pen	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pen	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pen	det
5	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 sleep	advmod
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sleep	nsubj
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pen	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the pen					tree rules
2	sleep	present	sheep						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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