Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a y…

Was the ship, like, a proper luxury boat, or a boring old tub?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: ship

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ship	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ship	det
3	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	compound
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ship	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	10 boat	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boat	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boat	amod
9	luxury	luxury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boat	amod
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tub	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 tub	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tub	det
14	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tub	amod
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tub	amod
16	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boat	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 boat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ship					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

rough wood and tar, proper basic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wood	amod
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tar	cc
4	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wood	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 basic	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 basic	amod
7	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wood	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

all silk and luxury, mad fancy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 silk	det
2	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 luxury	cc
4	luxury	luxury	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 silk	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fancy	punct
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fancy	amod
7	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 silk	conj

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

Option 3

plain and cheap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cheap	cc
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 plain	conj

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

Option 4

a tub, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tub	det
2	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bruv	punct
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tub	conj

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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