Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: gra…

No cap, what was the big stick with the dingle-dangles called?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be, call · To what, where: big stick, dingle dangles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 994 «Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: grandpa recalls the shield parade, then the gale tears signs from their places» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stick	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 stick	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stick	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stick	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stick	amod
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	appos
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 dangles	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dangles	det
11	dingle	dingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dangles	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 dingle	punct
13	dangles	dangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stick	nmod
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 dangles	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	the big stick				with the dingle dangles	tree rules
2	call	participle		the dingle dangles not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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

the bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the crescent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crescent	det
2	crescent	crescent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the big stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stick	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stick	amod
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bat	det
2	bat	bat	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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