Test 3 · ★ · Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learn…

mate, what was the messenger on about, the one who saw the dancing thing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, one · What happens: be, see · To what, where: messenger, dancing thing

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 750 «Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learns the dwarf's name, and Gretel eats the fowls» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 messenger	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 messenger	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 messenger	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 messenger	det
6	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mate	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 one	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	11 one	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 about	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 messenger	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 one	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thing	compound
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mate and the messenger	the messenger				on the one	tree rules
2	see	past	the one	the dancing thing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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 dwarf singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 singing	det
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 singing	amod
3	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A witch brewing a potion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	brewing	brew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 witch	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 potion	det
5	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brewing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brew	gerund	a witch not said here	a potion					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potion=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A dwarf singing his own name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 singing	det
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 singing	amod
3	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 name	amod
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund		his own name					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location name=Theme
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

A dwarf dancing in a ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dancing	det
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dancing	amod
3	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ring	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dancing	nmod

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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