Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

Wait, who came running to buy those skins?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, come, run, buy · To what, where: skins

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 running	xcomp
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 skins	det
9	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 buy	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	gerund			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	buy	to-infinitive		that skins	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

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

The shoemakers and tanners of the whole town and beyond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoemakers	det
2	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tanners	cc
4	tanners	tanner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shoemakers	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 town	amod
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shoemakers	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 beyond	cc
10	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	8 town	conj

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

Option 2

The butchers and bakers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 butchers	det
2	butchers	butcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bakers	cc
4	bakers	baker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 butchers	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The shoemakers and tanners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoemakers	det
2	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tanners	cc
4	tanners	tanner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shoemakers	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The farmers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmers	det
2	farmers	farmer	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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