Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…
Wait, what did the sexton pay to get out of the chest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, sexton · What happens: wait, pay, get out · To what, where: chest
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | _ | 7 pay | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 pay | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pay | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sexton | det |
| 6 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | nsubj |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pay | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 chest | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chest | det |
| 13 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pay | past · do-support | the sexton | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get out | to-infinitive | the sexton not said here | the chest | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
A whole bushel full of money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bushel | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bushel | amod |
| 3 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bushel | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 money | case |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A heavy purse of silver coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 purse | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 purse | amod |
| 3 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 coins | case |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coins | compound |
| 6 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 purse | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A whole bushel full of money and his best horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bushel | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bushel | amod |
| 3 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bushel | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 money | case |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 horse | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 horse | amod |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bushel | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Everything in his purse plus a promise never to return again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 return | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 purse | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 purse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Everything | nmod |
| 5 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 7 promise | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 promise | det |
| 7 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 purse | conj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 return | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 return | mark |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 return | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return | to-infinitive | Everything | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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