Test 10 · ★ · Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explai…

Ole said his story had grease and lacquer, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ole, story · What happens: say, have · To what, where: grease · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 930 «Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explains the six glasses, the tree in the dust-cart, and Death's omnibus» 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	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 story	nmod:poss
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
6	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lacquer	cc
8	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grease	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	6 grease	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ole						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Ole's story	grease and lacquer					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grease=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

Kinda, he used only some lacquer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 lacquer	advmod
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 lacquer	det
7	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	some lacquer				kinda property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lacquer=Patient

Option 2

Nope, just paint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 paint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 paint	advmod
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he told it with both, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 both	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		it			with both	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 4

Nah, just grease

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 grease	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 grease	advmod
4	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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