Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…
Yo, what was the vibe of that cottage, was it giving falling apart?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: vibe · What happens: be, give, fall apart · To what, where: vibe
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1013 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the duckling survives the hunters, a cottage, and a freezing winter» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 vibe | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 vibe | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vibe | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vibe | det |
| 6 | vibe | vibe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giving | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cottage | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 cottage | det |
| 9 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vibe | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vibe | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 giving | aux |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 giving | nsubj |
| 13 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 giving | xcomp |
| 15 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 14 falling | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 giving | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the vibe | of that cottage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past · progressive | the vibe | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall apart | gerund | the vibe not said here | apart property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
It looked ready to fall down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fall | mark |
| 5 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ready | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 fall | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | It | ready property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fall down | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
It was old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 old | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 old | cop |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | old property | tree rules |
Option 3
Pretty nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 nice | advmod |
| 2 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
It seemed very cozy and quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 cozy | advmod |
| 4 | cozy | cozy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 quiet | cc |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cozy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | cozy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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