Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

Ok, what did the yard dog's bark sound like?

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

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» 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	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
6	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dog	compound
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sound	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dog	case
9	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sound	compound
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	10 sound	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the yard dog's bark sound					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Eventuality

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

Rough and cracked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rough	rough	ADV	_	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cracked	cc
3	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Rough	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hoarse, not proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 proper	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 proper	advmod
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hoarse	conj

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

Option 3

Like a hoarse, croaking cough, not a proper bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	6 cough	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cough	det
3	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cough	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 croaking	punct
5	croaking	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 cough	amod
6	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bark	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 bark	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bark	det
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bark	amod
11	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cough	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	croak	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Croaky, not clear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Croaky	croaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clear	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 clear	advmod
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Croaky	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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