Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

What was the doll's play sort of copying, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: play sort, doll · What happens: be, innit, sort · To what, where: copying

This is test 5 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doll	det
4	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 doll	case
6	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	compound
7	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 copying	case
9	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sort	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the doll's play sort of copying		tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	the doll's play sort of copying not said here		tree rules
3	sort		the doll	copying	nom sort «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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 tale of a sweep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sweep	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sweep	det
5	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tale	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell		a sweep						nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

two lovers at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lovers	nummod
2	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 sea	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lovers	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

two lovers who weren't allowed to wed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lovers	nummod
2	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux:pass
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 allowed	advmod
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wed	mark
8	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	past · passive		two lovers					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	wed not said to happen	to-infinitive	two lovers not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a story about a sweep and a teapot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 sweep	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sweep	det
5	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 teapot	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 teapot	det
8	teapot	teapot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sweep	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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