Test 4 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lam…

the wife wanted eggs and bacon, but where'd she get herbs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife · What happens: want, get · To what, where: eggs, herbs

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 924 «Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lamp's last night on his post and the three rivals on the bridge» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bacon	cc
6	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eggs	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 get	advmod
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	conj
13	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the wife	eggs and bacon					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot egg=Theme
2	get	would	wife	herbs					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herb=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

from the schoolmaster's, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 schoolmaster	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 schoolmaster	det
3	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proper	obl
4	's	's	PART	_	3 schoolmaster	case
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 schoolmaster	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

from the neighbours, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 neighbours	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbours	det
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 neighbours	conj

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

Option 3

she got them from the schoolmaster's, proper, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 schoolmaster	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 schoolmaster	det
6	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 schoolmaster	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proper	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 schoolmaster	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 schoolmaster	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she	them = they				from the schoolmaster and no cap	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from schoolmaster=Source

Option 4

from the mill, dead proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	ADP	_	3 mill	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mill	det
3	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mill	punct
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod

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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