Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…
Lowkey, what did the old lady call the tom cat, like his nickname?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady, cat · What happens: call, nickname · To what, where: tom cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Lowkey | Lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 call | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lowkey | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 call | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | nsubj |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 10 | tom | tom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cat | compound |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nickname | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 nickname | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 nickname | nmod:poss |
| 15 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · do-support | the old lady | the tom cat | like cat's nickname; Lowkey vocative | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme cat=Result | |||
| 2 | nickname | cat | nom nickname «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
"Sweet little one"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 2 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
"My precious little son, my darling boy"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boy | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 boy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | darling | darling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | appos |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 boy | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"My little son"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
"My dear old tabby"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tabby | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tabby | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tabby | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tabby | amod |
| 5 | tabby | tabby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tabby | punct |
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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