Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…
Why did the mate say he'd had a dream, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: say, have · To what, where: dream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 say | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mate | det |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | aux |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dream | det |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 say | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | would | mate | a dream | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=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 · ← Mova's choice
about the castle and its gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 castle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 castle | det |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gate | cc |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 gate | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 castle | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
about the princess and her shoe in the dark mountain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 princess | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shoe | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 princess | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mountain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mountain | amod |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoe | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
about the princess and her shoe and a magic bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 princess | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shoe | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 princess | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bird | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bird | amod |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 princess | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
about the princess and her shoe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 princess | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shoe | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 princess | conj |
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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