Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: t…

No cap, what was the Grasshopper's card house made of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be, make · To what, where: card house

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 house	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 house	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 house	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Grasshopper	det
7	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 house	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Grasshopper	case
9	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	compound
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	appos
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 house	acl
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 made	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	the Grasshopper's card house					tree rules
2	make	participle		the Grasshopper's card house not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

bright cards painted with kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cards	amod
2	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cards	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 kings	case
5	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 painted	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle		bright cards not said here					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

old playing cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cards	amod
2	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cards	compound
3	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

sugar cubes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cubes	compound
2	cubes	cube	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

picture cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cards	compound
2	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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