Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy ni…

Mate, what sort of wood is mahogany, anyway?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, sort · To what, where: Mate mahogany, wood

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mahogany	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sort	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 wood	case
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mahogany	cop
8	mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anyway	punct
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 mahogany	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mahogany	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Mate mahogany				anyway property	tree rules
2	sort			wood					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

A pale yellow timber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 timber	det
2	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 timber	amod
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 timber	amod
4	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A tropical tree that grows in the far jungle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tree	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grows	nsubj
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tree	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 jungle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jungle	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 jungle	amod
9	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a tropical tree			the far jungle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A hard blackish wood from a big tree in India

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wood	det
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wood	amod
3	blackish	blackish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wood	amod
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wood	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 India	case
10	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tree	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A dark reddish-brown wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wood	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wood	amod
3	reddish	reddish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brown	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 reddish	punct
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wood	amod
6	wood	wood	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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