Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

Who's the bloke the Chinaman wants her to marry, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Chinaman, her · What happens: be, want, marry · To what, where: bloke, her

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» 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	4 bloke	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bloke	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Chinaman	det
6	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wants	nsubj
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bloke	acl:relcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wants	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wants	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bloke	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bloke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the bloke and mate	tree rules
2	want	present	the Chinaman	her = she	tree rules
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

the Major-general Billy-goat's-legs from the top shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 legs	det
2	Major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 general	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Major	punct
4	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 legs	amod
5	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 legs	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Billy	punct
7	goat's	goat's	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 legs	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 goat's	punct
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 shelf	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shelf	det
12	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shelf	amod
13	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 legs	nmod

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

Option 2

the rich old Major-general Billy-goat's-legs of the upper cabinet

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 legs	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 legs	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 legs	amod
4	Major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 general	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Major	punct
6	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 legs	amod
7	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 legs	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Billy	punct
9	goat's	goat's	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 legs	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 goat's	punct
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 cabinet	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cabinet	det
14	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cabinet	amod
15	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 legs	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Major-general Billy-goat's-legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 general	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Major	punct
3	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 legs	amod
4	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 legs	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Billy	punct
6	goat's	goat's	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 legs	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 goat's	punct
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Captain Billy-goat's-tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Captain	flat
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Billy	punct
4	goat's	goat's	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tail	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 goat's	punct
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Captain	appos

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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