Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

Innit, what did the iron call him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: iron · What happens: call · To what, where: Innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 call	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 call	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 call	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 iron	det
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 call	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	the iron	Innit				Innit vocative	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Result

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 right answer

An old rag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A rag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A dirty, torn old rag from the wash-tub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rag	det
2	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rag	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dirty	punct
4	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rag	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rag	amod
6	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 tub	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tub	det
9	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tub	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wash	punct
11	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rag	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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