Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Ara…

What does stork-papa think about carrying that heavy gold?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: think, carry · To what, where: heavy gold

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 think	nsubj:outer
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 papa	aux
3	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 papa	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 stork	punct
5	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	acl:relcl
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 carrying	mark
8	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 think	advcl
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 gold	det
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gold	amod
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present							vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	gerund		that heavy gold					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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 right answer

It's heavy but worth it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heavy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heavy	cop
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 worth	cc
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heavy	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heavy	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					heavy property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2

Heavy, sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sure	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Heavy	punct
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He finds the gold quite nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 finds	nsubj
2	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finds	obj
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 nice	advmod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 finds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	He	the gold				nice property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic

Option 4

He thinks it's shiny gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gold	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gold	cop
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gold	amod
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	shiny gold					tree rules

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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