Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt…

Which spark did the kids say was the schoolmaster, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spark, kids · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: schoolmaster · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 828 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt paper's last words, then a ruined son flies off in a magic trunk» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 spark	det
2	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kids	det
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 schoolmaster	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 schoolmaster	det
9	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 schoolmaster	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which spark		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the kids		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		the schoolmaster and mate	tree rules

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 red one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The last one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root

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

Option 4

Top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Top	top	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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