Test 1 · ★ · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…

Mate, what did the dying mum tell her to always be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, die, tell, be · To what, where: dying mum, her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» 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	8 tell	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	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mum	det
6	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mum	amod
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 be	mark
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 be	advmod
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the dying mum			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Eventuality
2	die	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	tell speech: assert	present	Mate		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be not said to happen	to-infinitive				always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A good girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A sly girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A rich girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A brave girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	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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