Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, part 1: tiny Tom is sold,…

did Tom sleep in an actual snail shell, ngl?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Tom sleep, actual snail shell

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 748 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, part 1: tiny Tom is sold, tricks thieves, and naps in the hay» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	compound
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 shell	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shell	det
6	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shell	amod
7	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shell	compound
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ngl	punct
10	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shell	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Tom sleep		a actual snail shell and ngl			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Eventuality

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

nope, a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

nah, in a hollow log

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 log	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 log	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 log	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 log	det
5	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 log	amod
6	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, in a dusty old bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 bag	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bag	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 bag	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bag	det
5	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bag	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bag	amod
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, a big empty one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	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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