Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

Mad, what did the General shout when he saw the kids?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, see · To what, where: General shout, kids

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shout	det
6	General	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shout	amod
7	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kids	det
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the General shout					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Eventuality
2	see	past	he	the kids					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=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

"Charming!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Charming	punct
2	Charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Charming	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Charming	punct

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

Option 2

"Splendid!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Splendid	punct
2	Splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Splendid	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Splendid	punct

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

Option 3

"Oh!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct

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

Option 4

"Bravo!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bravo	punct
2	Bravo	bravo	INTJ	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Bravo	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bravo	punct

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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