Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people s…

Lowkey, what stopped Fulton's boat before the nail broke?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey, nail · What happens: stop, break · To what, where: boat

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Fulton	Fulton	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boat	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Fulton	case
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 broke	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nail	det
10	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	nsubj
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Lowkey	Fulton's boat					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector boat=Eventuality
2	break	past	the nail						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

A loose hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A little nail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A small bolt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A nail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nail	det
2	nail	nail	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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