Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

Wait, what did the merchant's son buy for his big finale?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, merchant · What happens: wait, do, buy · To what, where: son buy

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buy	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 merchant	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buy	compound
9	buy	buy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 finale	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 finale	nmod:poss
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 finale	amod
13	finale	finale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the merchant's son buy	for his big finale	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buy=Eventuality
3	buy		the merchant			nom buy «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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

crackers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crackers	cracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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

rockets and crackers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 crackers	cc
3	crackers	cracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 rockets	conj

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

Option 3

sweets and toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 toys	cc
3	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sweets	conj

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

Option 4

silk and lanterns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 lanterns	cc
3	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 silk	conj

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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