Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death s…

mate, did Death ask every rider the same thing first?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Death · What happens: ask · To what, where: rider

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
4	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 rider	det
7	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 ask	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · do-support	Death	every rider				mate vocative; first property	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

Where is the mark-book?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 book	det
4	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 mark	punct
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the mark book					where property	tree rules

Option 2

Are you ready?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ready	cop
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ready	nsubj
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ready	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					ready property	tree rules

Option 3

Who is the best rider?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Who	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rider	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 rider	amod
5	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Who	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Who	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best rider						tree rules

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

How stands the mark-book?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 stands	advmod
2	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 book	det
4	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 mark	punct
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stands	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 stands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present		the mark book					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus

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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