Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…
who's the one that makes a fool of March, like a prank?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be, make · To what, where: one, fool
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 one | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fool | det |
| 8 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 March | case |
| 10 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fool | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prank | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 prank | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prank | det |
| 14 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | parataxis |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | present | the one | a fool of March | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fool=Product |
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
August
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the month who plays jokes on March
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 month | det |
| 2 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 plays | nsubj |
| 4 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 plays | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 March | case |
| 7 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | jokes | march; month | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme |
Option 3
the jester month who tricks March for fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 month | det |
| 2 | jester | jester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 month | compound |
| 3 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tricks | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 tricks | nsubj |
| 5 | tricks | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tricks | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fun | case |
| 8 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tricks | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | present | march; month | for fun | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
April
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April | April | PROPN | 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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