Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…
What did the judges have on their chairs, the squishy stuff?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judges · What happens: do, have · To what, where: chairs
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 judges | det |
| 4 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 chairs | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chairs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stuff | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stuff | det |
| 11 | squishy | squishy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stuff | amod |
| 12 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chairs | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | the judges | judges's chairs and the squishy stuff | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
soft eider-down cushions filled with goose feathers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cushions | amod |
| 2 | eider | eider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 down | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 eider | punct |
| 4 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cushions | compound |
| 5 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cushions | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 feathers | case |
| 8 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feathers | compound |
| 9 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 filled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | soft down cushions not said here | with goose feathers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with feather=Instrument |
Option 2
heavy embroidered silk cushions from the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cushions | amod |
| 2 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cushions | amod |
| 3 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cushions | compound |
| 4 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cushions | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
silk cushions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cushions | compound |
| 2 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
eider-down cushions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eider | eider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 down | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 eider | punct |
| 3 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cushions | compound |
| 4 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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