Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza fl…
fr, what did the youngest swan do when they got to the cave?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, they · What happens: do, get · To what, where: youngest swan
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1022 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza flies over the sea and waits on a tiny rock» 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 fr | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 swan | det |
| 6 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 swan | amod |
| 7 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 got | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 cave | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cave | det |
| 14 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fr | the youngest swan | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | present | fr | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past | they | to the cave result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result |
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
fed her berries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 berries | nmod:poss |
| 3 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 fed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | her berries | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
showed his sister her bedroom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 showed | iobj |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bedroom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 showed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | her bedroom | his sister | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient bedroom=Topic |
Option 3
sang a song
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sang | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | a song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
Option 4
gave her a warm blanket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 gave | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blanket | det |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blanket | amod |
| 5 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a warm blanket | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient blanket=Theme |
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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