Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

Wait, which one said they were only common people?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, one, they · What happens: wait, say, be · To what, where: common people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 people	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 people	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 people	advmod
9	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	which one		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	they	common people	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

the tinder-box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tinder	punct
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the urn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 urn	det
2	urn	urn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the matches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 matches	det
2	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the broom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 broom	det
2	broom	broom	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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