Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 2…
whats the punishment if the wisp fails, dude?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wisp · What happens: fail · To what, where: punishment
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1026 «Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh» 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 | whats | what | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 punishment | det |
| 3 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 whats | appos |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 fails | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wisp | det |
| 6 | wisp | wisp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fails | nsubj |
| 7 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 punishment | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dude | punct |
| 9 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 whats | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 whats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present | the wisp | the punishment not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=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 · ← Mova's choice
Drowned
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Sent to the bottom of the bog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 bottom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottom | det |
| 4 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sent | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bog | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bog | det |
| 7 | bog | bog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottom | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | the bottom of the bog | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bottom=Destination |
Option 3
Trapped in the swamp for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 swamp | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 swamp | det |
| 4 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trapped | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 good | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Trapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | participle | the swamp | for good | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in swamp=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Stuck in rotten wood, can't move
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 wood | case |
| 3 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wood | amod |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stuck | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 move | punct |
| 6 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 move | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 move | advmod |
| 8 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wood | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | can | rotten wood not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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