Test 2 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls o…

lol who even dug up the yellow buttons?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: dig up · To what, where: yellow buttons

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 753 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls on the thieves» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 dug	discourse
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dug	nsubj
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 dug	advmod
4	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 dug	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buttons	det
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 buttons	amod
8	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dug	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dug	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	past		the yellow buttons					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent button=Theme

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 poor widow who lived beside the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 widow	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 widow	amod
3	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 widow	acl:relcl
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 well	det
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the poor widow			the well			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside well=Location

Option 2

Frederick's two hired workers from the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 workers	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Frederick	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 workers	nummod
4	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 workers	amod
5	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 mill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mill	det
8	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 workers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire	participle							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldiers	det
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the pedlars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pedlars	det
2	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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