Test 4 · ★ · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…

Wait, who wrote "gracious patroness" in the book?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, write · To what, where: gracious patroness, book

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 patroness	punct
6	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 patroness	amod
7	patroness	patroness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 patroness	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 book	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 book	det
11	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write	past		gracious patroness		the book			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent patroness=Theme in book=Destination

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

the porter wrote it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 porter	det
2	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	the porter	it					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

the porter's wife told George

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 porter	det
2	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 porter	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the porter's wife		George				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent george=Recipient

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

the General's lady told them what to write

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 General	det
2	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lady	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 General	case
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 write	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 write	mark
9	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the General's lady		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	write not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

Option 4

the doctor wrote it himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrote	obj
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 wrote	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	the doctor	it				doctor obl:unmarked	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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