Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt…

Who even sent the trunk to him, like was it his bezzie?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: trunk · What happens: send, be · To what, where: trunk, him

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 sent	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trunk	det
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bezzie	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 bezzie	case
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bezzie	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bezzie	nsubj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bezzie	nmod:poss
13	bezzie	bezzie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		the trunk	him = he				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme to he=Destination
2	is	past	trunk					like his bezzie	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

A pal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A good-natured friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friend	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct
4	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friend	amod
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A nice old schoolfriend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 schoolfriend	det
2	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 schoolfriend	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 schoolfriend	amod
4	schoolfriend	schoolfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

His cousin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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