Test 6 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…

ok but who was reading that old book out loud?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: read · To what, where: old book

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	5 reading	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 reading	cc
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 reading	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reading	aux
5	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 book	mark
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 book	amod
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reading	obl
9	out	out	ADV	_	10 loud	advmod
10	loud	loud	ADV	_	5 reading	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reading	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past · progressive		old book				loud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

the harbour master who kept the old logbook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 master	det
2	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 master	compound
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 logbook	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 logbook	amod
8	logbook	logbook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the harbour master	the old logbook					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent logbook=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

merchant bronne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bronne	compound
2	bronne	bronne	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the schoolmaster from the village church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 schoolmaster	det
2	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 church	compound
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 schoolmaster	nmod

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

Option 4

the old sexton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sexton	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sexton	amod
3	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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