Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a…
What time did the sexton call him up, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sexton · What happens: call up · To what, where: him
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 102 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a simple boy is sent to learn shivering and throws a ghost down the stairs» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sexton | det |
| 5 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | nsubj |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 call | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 call | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | vocative |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call up speech: assert | past · do-support | the sexton | him = he | time | mate vocative | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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
sunrise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nightfall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
noon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
midnight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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