Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…

oi, who's the wise geezer who starts all this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: oi, wise geezer · What happens: be, start · To what, where: wise geezer, this

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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	oi	oi	X	Foreign=Yes	7 geezer	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 geezer	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 geezer	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 geezer	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 geezer	det
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 geezer	amod
7	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 starts	nsubj
9	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 geezer	acl:relcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 this	det:predet
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 starts	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 geezer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	oi	the wise geezer					tree rules
2	start	present	the wise geezer	this					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality

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

the wise man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boss	det
2	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the old bloke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bloke	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bloke	amod
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the clever chap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chap	det
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chap	amod
3	chap	chap	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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