Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people s…

No way, who's stuck in a madhouse saying steam can push stuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way, madhouse · What happens: be, say, push · To what, where: madhouse, steam, stuff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» 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 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 push	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stuck	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stuck	cop
6	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 way	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 madhouse	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 madhouse	det
9	madhouse	madhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	obl
10	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 madhouse	acl
11	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	obj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 push	aux
13	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 push	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 push	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	no way		a madhouse	stuck property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a madhouse not said here	steam			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent steam=Topic
3	push	can	no way	stuff			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

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 inventor Solomon de Cares himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inventor	det
2	inventor	inventor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Cares	nsubj
3	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Cares	compound
4	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Solomon	flat
5	Cares	Care	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 Cares	nmod

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

Option 2

The guy in the madhouse who says steam pushes stuff, Solomon de Cares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guy	det
2	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushes	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 madhouse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 madhouse	det
5	madhouse	madhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guy	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 madhouse	acl:relcl
8	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obj
9	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushes	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Cares	punct
12	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Cares	compound
13	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Solomon	flat
14	Cares	Cares	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pushes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the madhouse	steam					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent steam=Topic
2	push	present	the guy in the madhouse	stuff				Solomon Cares obl	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

Option 3

Johann Müller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Johann	Johann	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Müller	Müller	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Johann	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Solomon de Cares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Solomon	flat
3	Cares	Cares	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Solomon	flat

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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