Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

Is it true the laundress was once a servant at the mayor's, like, years back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, laundress · What happens: be · To what, where: servant, mayor

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 servant	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 laundress	det
5	laundress	laundress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servant	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 servant	cop
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 servant	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 servant	det
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 mayor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mayor	det
12	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servant	nmod
13	's	's	PART	_	12 mayor	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 years	punct
15	like	like	INTJ	_	17 years	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 servant	obl:unmarked
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 years	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 servant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					true property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the laundress	a servant		the mayor	year	once property	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

yes, in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 kitchen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kitchen	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 kitchen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kitchen	det
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

no, she lived in the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	she			the town			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yes, in service there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 service	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 service	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 service	case
4	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 service	advmod

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

Option 4

yes, she was a maid there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 maid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 maid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 maid	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 maid	det
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 maid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a maid		there			tree rules

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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