Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

What did the ladies stick in their mouths to sound like her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ladies · What happens: do, stick, sound · To what, where: mouths

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» 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=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ladies	det
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stick	nsubj
5	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mouths	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouths	nmod:poss
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stick	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sound	mark
10	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stick	advcl
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sound	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	stick	present	the ladies	ladies's mouths		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mouth=Destination
3	sound	to-infinitive	the ladies not said here		like her = she	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

"Lemon juice"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 juice	punct
2	Lemon	lemon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 juice	compound
3	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 juice	punct

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

Option 3

"Milk"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Milk	punct
2	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Milk	punct

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

Option 4

"Tea"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tea	punct
2	Tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tea	punct

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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