Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…
Lol where'd the gnat hide to sting him?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: gnat · What happens: hide, sting · To what, where: gnat
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 hide | discourse |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 hide | advmod |
| 3 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hide | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gnat | det |
| 5 | gnat | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hide | nsubj |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sting | mark |
| 8 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hide | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sting | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 hide | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | would | the gnat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sting | to-infinitive | the gnat not said here | gnat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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
Behind the gilded figurehead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 4 figurehead | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 figurehead | det |
| 3 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 figurehead | amod |
| 4 | figurehead | figurehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Inside one of the coverings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 coverings | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coverings | det |
| 5 | coverings | covering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Under the ship's wooden deck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 6 deck | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deck | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 ship | case |
| 5 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deck | amod |
| 6 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Hidden deep in one of the thick cloth tents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 1 Hidden | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Hidden | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tents | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tents | det |
| 7 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tents | amod |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tents | compound |
| 9 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | in one of the thick cloth tents; deep property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location |
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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