Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

So what's the shepherd tale about, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shepherd tale · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tale	det
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tale	compound
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
7	about	about	ADV	_	9 mate	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 about	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tale	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the shepherd tale 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

a wolf and a hare meeting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 meeting	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meeting	det
5	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meeting	compound
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wolf	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a stag and a roebuck dying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 roebuck	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 roebuck	det
5	roebuck	roebuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stag	conj
6	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stag	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	gerund	a stag and a roebuck not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

two proud deer who argue until one of them falls down dead in the snow

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 deer	nummod
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 deer	amod
3	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 argue	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 argue	nsubj
5	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 falls	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 falls	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nmod
10	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 argue	advcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 falls	compound:prt
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 falls	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 snow	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 snow	det
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	two proud deer						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall down	present	one of deer			the snow		dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in snow=Location

Option 4

a stag and a roebuck dying in the forest after a long hunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 roebuck	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 roebuck	det
5	roebuck	roebuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stag	conj
6	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stag	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dying	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 hunt	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hunt	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hunt	amod
13	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	gerund	a stag and a roebuck not said here				after a long hunt	in the forest	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Attribute

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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