Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

Did the old man's picture book have cool stuff in it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: picture book · What happens: have · To what, where: cool stuff, stuff

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 book	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 book	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 man	case
6	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 book	compound
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuff	amod
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the old man's picture book	cool stuff		stuff			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient

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

Maps of far-off lands and tiny sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 lands	case
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 lands	advmod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 far	punct
5	off	off	ADP	_	6 lands	case
6	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Maps	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sheep	cc
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sheep	amod
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lands	conj

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

Option 2

Long processions of wonderful coaches with gold wheels and horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 processions	amod
2	processions	procession	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 coaches	case
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coaches	amod
5	coaches	coach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 processions	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 wheels	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wheels	compound
8	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 coaches	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 horses	cc
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wheels	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed		wonderful coaches with gold wheels and horses						nom procession «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Long processions of wonderful coaches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 processions	amod
2	processions	procession	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 coaches	case
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coaches	amod
5	coaches	coach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 processions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed		wonderful coaches						nom procession «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Many pages of coaches, carts and soldiers marching in long lines through a city

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pages	amod
2	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 coaches	case
4	coaches	coach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pages	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 carts	punct
6	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pages	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 soldiers	cc
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carts	conj
9	marching	march	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 carts	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 lines	case
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lines	amod
12	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 marching	obl
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 city	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 city	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	gerund	carts and soldiers not said here			long lines		through a city	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory
2	page			coaches					nom page «communication transitive»: of=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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