Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy ni…

Ever seen a bloke as brown as mahogany?

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

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 seen	advmod
2	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seen	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 brown	case
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seen	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 mahogany	case
8	mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brown	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 seen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	participle		a bloke			ever	as brown	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bloke=Stimulus as brown=Attribute

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 right answer

Nah, but folk there are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 folk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 folk	cc
4	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 are	dislocated
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 are	expl
6	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present				there		folk dislocated	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, I've seen one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 seen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
4	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	I	one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

Option 3

Nah, but I've heard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 heard	cc
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
5	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	I						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yeah, loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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