Test 1 · ★ · Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna si…

no cap, why did Knud totally freak out at the opera?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Knud · What happens: freak out · To what, where: opera

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1017 «Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna sing at the opera, then sets out north over the mountains» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 freak	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 freak	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 freak	aux
6	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 freak	nsubj
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 freak	advmod
8	freak	freak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 freak	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 opera	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 opera	det
12	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 freak	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freak out	past · do-support	Knud			the opera		totally property	vn marvel-31.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Too loud music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 loud	advmod
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 music	amod
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He spotted Joanna singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spotted	nsubj
2	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spotted	obj
4	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spotted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past	He		Joanna				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent joanna=Destination
2	sing speech: express	gerund	He not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He saw his master faint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 faint	nmod:poss
4	master	master	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 faint	amod
5	faint	faint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He	his master faint					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer faint=Stimulus
2	faint		his = he						nom faint «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He saw a ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ghost	det
4	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He	a ghost					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus

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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