Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b…

the street built his house, lol how?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: street · What happens: build · To what, where: house

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 street	det
2	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 house	nmod:poss
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lol	punct
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 built	discourse
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 built	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 built	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the street	street's house					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product

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 street did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 street	det
2	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the street	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

the people in the town all said so, it's what they reckoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 what	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	cop
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	ccomp
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reckoned	nsubj
14	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the people in the town	all property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	town		tree rules
3	reckon	past	people		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the town agreed, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bro	punct
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agreed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the town	bro					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent bro=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the people said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the people						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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