Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter…
Deadass, what did the town sparrow say kept her in the city?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Deadass, town sparrow · What happens: do, say, keep · To what, where: sparrow, city · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Deadass | Deadass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | 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 | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sparrow | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sparrow | compound |
| 7 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 city | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Deadass | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the town sparrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep | past | sparrow | the city | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in city=Location |
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
A kind family's garden with trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 family | amod |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 garden | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 family | case |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 garden | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A grand palace with tall marble walls and gardens full of golden roses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 palace | amod |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 walls | case |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 walls | amod |
| 6 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walls | compound |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 palace | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gardens | cc |
| 9 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walls | conj |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 walls | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 roses | case |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 roses | amod |
| 13 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The farmer's barn full of hay
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 | 4 barn | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 farmer | case |
| 4 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 barn | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hay | case |
| 7 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The people's flower-pots with holes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pots | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 people | case |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pots | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 flower | punct |
| 6 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 holes | case |
| 8 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pots | 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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