Test 3 · ★ · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…

Mate, what did the General say the book was?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: General · What happens: say, be · To what, where: book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 944 «Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George is confirmed, gets a hymn-book from Emily, and sends her pictures while she is ill» 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	7 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 General	det
6	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 book	det
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 book	cop
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the General					Mate vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	is a	past		the book					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

"Rather plain, I think"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 plain	punct
2	Rather	rather	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plain	det
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 plain	parataxis
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 plain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	I						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

"Very handsome indeed"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 handsome	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 handsome	advmod
3	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 handsome	advmod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 handsome	punct

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

"A book"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ 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.

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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