Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, t…
Lol the dog did crosses on EVERY door, proper genius
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: do · To what, where: crosses, door
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1003 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape» 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | crosses | cross | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | EVERY | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 genius | punct |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 genius | amod |
| 11 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the dog | crosses | every door and proper genius | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Eventuality |
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
No, the king found the house in the end anyway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 found | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 11 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 5 found | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the king | the house | in the end | anyway property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic |
Option 2
Yeah, it was clever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 clever | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | clever property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, it confused the king's men for quite a while
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 confused | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 confused | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 confused | nsubj |
| 4 | confused | confuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 men | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 confused | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 while | case |
| 10 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 while | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confused | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confuse | past | it | the king's men | while | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it messed up the king's search big time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 messed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 messed | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 messed | nsubj |
| 4 | messed | mess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 messed | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 search | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 messed | obj |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 messed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mess up | past | it | the king's search | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | search | the king | nom search «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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