Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, par…

So the cask knew more about poetry than the student?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cask · What happens: know · To what, where: more

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 833 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, part 44: Inge is freed as a little bird, does good deeds all winter, and turns white» 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	_	4 knew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cask	det
3	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 knew	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 poetry	case
7	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 more	obl
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 student	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 student	det
10	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poetry	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the cask	more					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

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

Nah, the student did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 student	det
4	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the student						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Lol, the cask said it had more, but nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cask	det
4	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cask						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	cask	more					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

Option 3

Nah, the student wrote better stuff, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 student	det
4	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	nsubj
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 stuff	amod
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuff	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	the student	better stuff and bro					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the student knew more, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 student	det
4	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 knew	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 more	punct
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 knew	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the student	more					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

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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