Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 61: Christ…

Ib said she was a grand lady, right? and he called himself what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ib, he · What happens: say, be, call · To what, where: grand lady, himself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 850 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 61: Christina goes into service, and Ib cannot write to her» 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	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lady	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lady	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	7 lady	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 called	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	nsubj
13	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 called	obj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 called	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ib		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Ib	a grand lady	tree rules
3	call	past	he	himself = he	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme what=Result

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 farmhand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmhand	det
2	farmhand	farmhand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a simple working man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a humble farm worker, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 worker	det
2	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worker	amod
3	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worker	compound
4	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 worker	punct
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 worker	discourse

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a rough working man, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 man	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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