Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

Who's the grumpy one who reckons the saucepan talks too much?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grumpy one · What happens: be, reckon, talk · To what, where: grumpy one, saucepan, much

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 one	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talks	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 reckons	nsubj
7	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 saucepan	det
9	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckons	obj
10	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 talks	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 talks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the grumpy one	tree rules
2	reckon	present	the grumpy one	the saucepan	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent saucepan=Attribute
3	talk	present	the grumpy one	much	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent much=Patient

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 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 2

the saucepan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

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.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

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.

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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