Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…

What did the General straight-up scream when George asked for Emily?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: George, General · What happens: do, ask, scream · To what, where: scream

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 General	det
4	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 scream	nmod:poss
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	4 General	compound:prt
8	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
10	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 Emily	case
13	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the General's scream		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	past	George		for Emily	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scream		the General			nom scream «communication intransitive»: poss=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

"Porter!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

"Nonsense! Get out!"

Sentence 1: "Nonsense!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Sentence 2: Get out!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Get	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	imperative	you not said here					out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"Lunacy! porter! madness!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lunacy	punct
2	Lunacy	Lunacy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 madness	compound
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Lunacy	punct
4	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 madness	compound
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 porter	punct
6	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 madness	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 madness	punct

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

Option 4

"Madness!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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