Test 8 · ★ · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol…

mid question, what did the Barbel call the lady?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Barbel · What happens: call · To what, where: mid question · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» 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	mid	mid	ADJ	_	2 question	amod
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 call	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 call	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Barbel	det
7	Barbel	Barbel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 call	nsubj
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 question	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 question	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	the Barbel	mid question					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme lady=Result

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

obstinate madam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 madam	amod
2	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

contumacious lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	contumacious	contumacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lady	amod
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

rebellious young woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the most stubborn lady in the whole garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 stubborn	advmod
3	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 garden	amod
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lady	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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