Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well an…
so wait why did she just keep going up and up though
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: wait, keep, go up
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1004 «Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well and goes hunting for a better world» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 wait | advmod |
| 2 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 keep | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 keep | advmod |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wait | advcl |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 up | cc |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 up | conj |
| 12 | though | though | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep | past · do-support | she | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go up | gerund | she not said here | though property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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
She just had a massive longing for something better and kept climbing till she reached the roof
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 longing | det |
| 5 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 longing | amod |
| 6 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 something | case |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 longing | nmod |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 something | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kept | cc |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 12 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 kept | xcomp |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 reached | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 climbing | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 roof | det |
| 17 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | She | a massive longing | for something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient | |||
| 2 | keep | past | She not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | climb | gerund | She not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | she | the roof | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent roof=Theme |
Option 2
She had a massive longing for something better up above her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 longing | det |
| 4 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 longing | amod |
| 5 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 something | case |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 longing | nmod |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 something | amod |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 better | compound:prt |
| 10 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 something | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | She | a massive longing | for something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
She had a massive longing for something better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 longing | det |
| 4 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 longing | amod |
| 5 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 something | case |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 longing | nmod |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 something | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | She | a massive longing | for something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient |
Option 4
She had a strong wish for more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wish | det |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wish | amod |
| 5 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 more | case |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 wish | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | She | a strong wish | for more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
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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