Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls o…

fr, what did the thieves think the falling nuts were?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr, thieves · What happens: do, think, fall, be · To what, where: falling nuts

This is test 4 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thieves	det
6	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nuts	det
9	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 nuts	amod
10	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 think	obj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 nuts	cop
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	fr		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	present	the thieves		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	gerund			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		the falling nuts	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 right answer

hail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a shower of heavy stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shower	det
2	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stones	case
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stones	amod
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shower	nmod

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

Option 4

sleet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sleet	sleet	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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