Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin sol…
Honest, is the first bit even a story?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Honest first bit
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1000 «Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin soldiers meet a paper dancer, and one falls from the window» 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 | Honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bit | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Honest | punct |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bit | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 bit | amod |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 story | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bit | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Honest first bit | a story nmod | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, it's a dream
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 dream | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dream | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dream | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dream | det |
| 6 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a dream | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, it's a story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 story | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 story | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a story | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, it's a dream about future flying Americans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 dream | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dream | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dream | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dream | det |
| 6 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 Americans | case |
| 8 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Americans | amod |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Americans | amod |
| 10 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 dream | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a dream | about future flying Americans | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, it's a real trip about flying Yanks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 trip | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 trip | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 trip | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trip | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trip | amod |
| 7 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 Yanks | case |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Yanks | amod |
| 10 | Yanks | yank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trip | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a real trip | about flying Yanks | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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