Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress co…

Yo, what's the boy's quilt look like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quilt · What happens: be, look

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 844 «Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in the street and tells her sad story» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quilt	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 boy	case
8	quilt	quilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 what	acl:relcl
10	like	like	ADP	_	9 look	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the boy's quilt						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

grey with brown patches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 patches	case
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 patches	amod
4	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 grey	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

blue and white patchwork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 patchwork	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 white	cc
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 blue	conj
4	patchwork	patchwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

red and yellow stripes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stripes	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 yellow	cc
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 red	conj
4	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a faded blue and white patchwork quilt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 quilt	det
2	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 quilt	amod
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quilt	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 white	cc
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blue	conj
6	patchwork	patchwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quilt	compound
7	quilt	quilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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