Test 4 · ★ · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

Wot was Pu stirrin' wiv her stick, like, all slow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot · What happens: be · To what, where: Pu stirrin

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stirrin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stirrin	cop
3	Pu	Pu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stirrin	compound
4	stirrin	stirrin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 stick	punct
6	wiv	wiv	X	Foreign=Yes	8 stick	dep
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 stick	nmod:poss
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stirrin	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	8 stick	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slow	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 slow	det
13	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stirrin	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stirrin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Wot	Pu stirrin					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 kettle full of the boiling broth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kettle	det
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kettle	amod
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 broth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 broth	det
6	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 broth	amod
7	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

the silver spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spoon	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoon	compound
3	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the gold-fish bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bowl	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fish	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 gold	punct
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bowl	compound
5	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the iron pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pot	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pot	compound
3	pot	pot	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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