Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds o…

so what did Herr Sivertsen call The Tempest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Herr · What happens: do, call · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 931 «Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds of the dead and the aunt who lived for the theatre» 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Herr	Herr	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	nsubj
5	Sivertsen	Sivertsen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Herr	flat
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tempest	det
8	Tempest	Tempest	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	Herr						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

pure rubbish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rubbish	amod
2	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

mad nonsense from start to finish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nonsense	amod
2	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 start	case
4	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nonsense	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 finish	mark
6	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 nonsense	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	to-infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

a mad piece of nonsense for children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 piece	det
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 piece	amod
3	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 nonsense	case
5	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 piece	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 piece	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

mad nonsense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nonsense	amod
2	nonsense	nonsense	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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