Test 9 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

Was the red coverlet the dad's or the baby's?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: red coverlet

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coverlet	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coverlet	det
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coverlet	amod
4	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 baby	csubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dad	det
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 baby	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dad	case
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 baby	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 baby	det
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	's	's	PART	_	10 baby	case
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 baby	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the red coverlet					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 · ← Mova's choice

the baby's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 baby	case

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

Option 2

mum's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 mum	case

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the dad's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dad	case

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

Option 4

his

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	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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