Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

Sick, what was George's savings-box for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: sick, be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Sick	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 George	cop
5	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 savings	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 George	case
7	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 what	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 box	punct
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 savings	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	7 savings	case
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past						's George	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 · ← Mova's choice

a painting set

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 set	det
2	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	compound
3	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a new box of oil paints

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 paints	case
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paints	compound
6	paints	paint	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 box	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a paint-box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 paint	punct
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a sketch-book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 book	det
2	sketch	sketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 book	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sketch	punct
4	book	book	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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