Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

Bro, how did she know the swans were goose family?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, swans · What happens: know, be · To what, where: goose family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 know	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bro	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 swans	det
8	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 family	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 family	cop
10	goose	goose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 family	amod
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support	she						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the swans	goose family					tree rules

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

by feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 feet	case
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

by size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 size	case
2	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

by the feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 feathers	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feathers	det
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by their walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 walk	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 walk	nmod:poss
3	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk		their = they						nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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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