Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a…

sus, what did the merchant's girl say her papa could buy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, papa · What happens: say, buy · To what, where: sus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 810 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 1: a mother's ghostly farewell ends, and a proud girl sneers at "sen" names at a party» 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 girl	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 merchant	case
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sus	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 papa	nmod:poss
11	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buy	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 buy	aux
13	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the merchant's girl	sus					tree rules
2	buy	could	girl's papa						vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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

A hundred dollars of bonbons and a new doll from the shop on the square

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bonbons	case
5	bonbons	bonbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dollars	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 doll	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 doll	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 doll	amod
9	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bonbons	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 shop	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shop	det
12	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doll	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 square	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 square	det
15	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doll	nmod

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

Option 2

Every toy in the window of the grand toyshop and a pony to ride home on

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 toy	det
2	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 toy	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 toyshop	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 toyshop	det
8	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 toyshop	amod
9	toyshop	toyshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 window	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pony	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pony	det
12	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 toy	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ride	mark
14	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pony	acl
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 ride	advmod
16	on	on	ADV	_	14 ride	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	to-infinitive						home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A dozen silver spoons for tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dozen	det
2	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 spoons	nummod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoons	compound
4	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 tea	case
6	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoons	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A hundred dollars of bonbons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bonbons	case
5	bonbons	bonbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dollars	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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