Test 4 · ★ · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…
what did the potato spill, like, everything?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: potato spill
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spill | det |
| 4 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spill | compound |
| 5 | spill | spill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 7 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 spill | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 everything | punct |
| 9 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 spill | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the potato spill | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spill=Eventuality |
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
her grandmother's whole diary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 diary | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 grandmother | case |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 diary | amod |
| 5 | diary | diary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
her whole story, like a podcast that went on for hours and hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 story | nmod:poss |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 podcast | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 podcast | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 podcast | det |
| 7 | podcast | podcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | appos |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 podcast | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 hours | case |
| 12 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hours | cc |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 story | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | a podcast | hour | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
her entire life story, every detail, like some super long podcast episode about everything
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 story | nmod:poss |
| 2 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | compound |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 detail | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 detail | det |
| 7 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 episode | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 episode | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 episode | nsubj |
| 11 | super | super | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 episode | amod |
| 13 | podcast | podcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 episode | compound |
| 14 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 everything | case |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 episode | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
her whole story, like a podcast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 story | nmod:poss |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 podcast | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 podcast | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 podcast | det |
| 7 | podcast | podcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | appos |
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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