Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks th…

Wait, what did he say the king wanted, like the posh salad?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he, king · What happens: wait, say, want · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 salad	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 salad	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 salad	det
13	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 salad	amod
14	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	he		tree rules
3	want	past	the king	like the posh salad	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 right answer

the finest salad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 salad	det
2	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 salad	amod
3	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the sweetest greens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 greens	det
2	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 greens	amod
3	greens	green	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the rarest herb from the king's own far garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 herb	det
2	rarest	rare	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 herb	amod
3	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	10 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 garden	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 garden	amod
9	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 garden	amod
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 herb	nmod

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

Option 4

the royal cabbage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cabbage	det
2	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cabbage	amod
3	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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