Test 3 · ★ · Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways a…

fam, who was almost in the pot, the bean or the coal?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: be · To what, where: pot

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 730 «Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways almost die, and a bean ends up with a black seam» 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pot	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 pot	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pot	cop
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 pot	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pot	det
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fam	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bean	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bean	det
11	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fam	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 coal	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coal	det
14	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fam	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fam and the pot and the bean or the coal			the pot		almost property	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

The straw, which the old woman threw in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 straw	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 woman	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 woman	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 straw	appos
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	woman		the straw						tree rules
2	throw	past	the straw						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The coal, since she was almost in the pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coal	det
2	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pot	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	10 pot	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pot	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pot	cop
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 pot	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pot	det
10	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			the pot		almost property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The bean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bean	det
2	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The tailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	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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