Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a y…

Who got sent off as ambassador, like, the big boss job?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: send off · To what, where: big boss job

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 961 «Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a young Spanish couple sails toward Russia, but calm weather and then a storm blow their ship north» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 sent	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 sent	compound:prt
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 ambassador	case
6	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	3 sent	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 job	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 job	amod
12	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 job	compound
13	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	past · passive		the big boss job				as ambassador	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination job=Theme

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 husband, to the Russian Court, with a big fancy title and a palace

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Court	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 Court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Court	det
6	Russian	Russian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Court	amod
7	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 husband	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 title	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 title	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 title	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 title	amod
12	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 title	amod
13	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 husband	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 palace	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 palace	det
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 title	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the husband, to the Russian Court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 husband	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 Court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Court	det
6	Russian	Russian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Court	amod
7	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 husband	nmod

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

Option 3

the husband, to the Russian Court, as a sailor and a spy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Court	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 Court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Court	det
6	Russian	Russian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Court	amod
7	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 husband	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sailor	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 sailor	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sailor	det
11	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 husband	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spy	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 spy	det
14	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 husband	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the merchant, to the Danish Court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 merchant	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 Court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Court	det
6	Danish	Danish	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Court	compound
7	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 merchant	nmod

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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