Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter…
Fr, who was the dude sitting on the snow heap all chill?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr, dude · What happens: be, sit, heap · To what, where: dude, snow, chill
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1031 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter and the two children of Spring» 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 | 11 heap | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dude | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 dude | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dude | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dude | det |
| 6 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fr | appos |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 dude | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 snow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 snow | det |
| 10 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 11 | heap | heap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 chill | det |
| 13 | chill | chill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heap | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 heap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fr | the dude | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | the dude not said here | the snow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on snow=Location | ||||
| 3 | heap | infinitive | Fr | all chill | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chill=Theme |
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
The storks' father, a grey man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 storks | det |
| 2 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 storks | case |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 father | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The white man, the chief of frost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chief | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 frost | case |
| 8 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chief | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The farmer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Winter, the old man of last year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Winter | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 year | amod |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
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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