Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

Wait, who's that old geezer in the massive wig?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: old geezer, massive wig

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 geezer	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 geezer	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 geezer	cop
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 geezer	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 geezer	amod
7	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 wig	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wig	det
10	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wig	amod
11	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 geezer	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		that old geezer		the massive wig			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

A posh gent in a long coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gent	det
2	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gent	amod
3	gent	gent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 coat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coat	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coat	amod
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gent	nmod

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

Option 2

Some young lad in trousers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 lad	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lad	amod
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 trousers	case
5	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lad	nmod

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

Option 3

Some lonely old bloke in breeches and a massive powdered wig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 bloke	nsubj
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bloke	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bloke	amod
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 breeches	case
6	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bloke	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wig	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wig	det
9	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wig	amod
10	powdered	powder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 wig	amod
11	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bloke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	powder	participle							vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some lonely old bloke in breeches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 bloke	nsubj
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bloke	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bloke	amod
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 breeches	case
6	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bloke	nmod

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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