Test 11 · ★ · Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for Fran…
were the waterspouts like dragons or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: waterspouts
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1016 «Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for France, and Knud wanders off to Nuremberg» 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 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waterspouts | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 waterspouts | det |
| 3 | waterspouts | waterspout | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 dragons | case |
| 5 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waterspouts | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 nah | cc |
| 7 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 waterspouts | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 waterspouts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the waterspouts | like dragons | tree rules |
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
Shaped like birds or stone men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 birds | case |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shaped | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 men | cc |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 men | compound |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 birds | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | like birds or stone men | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 2
Shaped like lions or wolves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 lions | case |
| 3 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shaped | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 wolves | cc |
| 5 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lions | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | like lions or wolves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 3
Like strange twisted animals, half dragon and half horse with wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 animals | case |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animals | amod |
| 3 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animals | amod |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragon | punct |
| 6 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 dragon | amod |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 animals | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 horse | cc |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 10 horse | compound |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragon | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wings | case |
| 12 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 horse | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Shaped like dragons or long dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 dragons | case |
| 3 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shaped | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 dogs | cc |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dogs | amod |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dragons | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | like dragons or long dogs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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