Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsm…

Bro, what did Peter's dad say he had no more of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, say, have · To what, where: dad, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dad	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Peter	case
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 more	det
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 had	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 more	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	Peter's dad	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Bro		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	Bro	no more	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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

gold to spare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 spare	mark
3	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 gold	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	to-infinitive							vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent

Option 2

bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

any food at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 food	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 food	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

food to give

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 give	mark
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 food	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive							vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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