Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…
How did the mate know about the shoe, like, honestly?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: do, know · To what, where: mate
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mate | det |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mate | acl:relcl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 shoe | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shoe | det |
| 8 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 honestly | punct |
| 10 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 12 honestly | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 12 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the mate | about the shoe; honestly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | know | present | the mate not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
from a spirit of the mountain who listened at the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 spirit | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mountain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spirit | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 listened | nsubj |
| 8 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 listened | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the mountain | at the door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
from the magician in the mountain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 magician | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mountain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 magician | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
from an old servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 servant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 servant | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 servant | amod |
| 4 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
from the wise magician who lives high in the mountain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 magician | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 magician | det |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 magician | amod |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 magician | acl:relcl |
| 7 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 lives | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mountain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the wise magician | the mountain | high property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location |
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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