Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…

bruv, what was the little prince all teary about when he came in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv, he · What happens: be, come in

This is test 3 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 teary	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 teary	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 teary	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prince	amod
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 teary	nsubj
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 teary	advmod
9	teary	teary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 bruv	conj
10	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 teary	advcl
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bruv					all, teary property	tree rules
2	come in	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

a bad cough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cough	det
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cough	amod
3	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

tears in his eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 eyes	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tears	nmod

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

Option 3

his mother's letter from the war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 letter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mother	case
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 war	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 war	det
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 letter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	letter		his mother			the war			nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent from=place

Option 4

a broken toy soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 toy	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 toy	amod
3	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soldier	compound
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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