Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress co…
Fr fr, what were the banns she was going to put up?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr fr, she · What happens: be, go, put up · To what, where: banns
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fr | compound |
| 2 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 banns | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 banns | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 banns | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 banns | det |
| 7 | banns | banns | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fr | appos |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 banns | csubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 put | mark |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 going | xcomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 fr | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fr fr | the banns | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | she | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | put up | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
a betrothal gift
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gift | det |
| 2 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gift | compound |
| 3 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a marriage announcement
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 announcement | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 announcement | compound |
| 3 | announcement | announcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a public notice of a coming marriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 notice | det |
| 2 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 notice | amod |
| 3 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 marriage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 marriage | det |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 marriage | amod |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 notice | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | notice | a coming marriage | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
the public reading of the intentions to wed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reading | det |
| 2 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reading | amod |
| 3 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 intentions | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 intentions | det |
| 6 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reading | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wed | mark |
| 8 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reading | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wed | to-infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | read | the intentions | nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=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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