Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…

Yo, what did Jack's dad say he couldn't have?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad · What happens: do, say, not have · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dad	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Jack	case
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 have	advmod
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Jack's dad	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not have	could	dad	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a pony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pony	det
2	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a horse to ride to the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 ride	mark
4	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 horse	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ride	obl

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

Option 4

a sack of gold for the long road ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sack	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 road	amod
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sack	nmod
9	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	2 sack	advmod

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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