Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

Lol, who did the collar chat up in the wash tub?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: collar · What happens: do, chat up · To what, where: wash tub

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	6 collar	det
6	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chat	nsubj
7	chat	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 chat	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 tub	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tub	det
11	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tub	compound
12	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chat	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chat up speech: other	present	the collar			the wash tub			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

A slim garter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A sock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sock	det
2	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A tall hatband

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A slim garter who was too shy to speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 garter	det
2	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 garter	amod
3	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 shy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shy	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 shy	advmod
7	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 garter	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 speak	mark
9	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a slim garter					shy property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	a slim garter not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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