Test 11 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…
Mate, when the lady looked at the star, what did she do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, lady · What happens: look, do · To what, where: star
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 looked | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 star | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 star | det |
| 9 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 star | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Mate | at the star | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past · do-support | lady | the star | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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
closed her tired eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | closed | close | 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 closed | obj |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 closed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | her = she | tree rules |
Option 2
looked up at it with her mild blue eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 looked | compound:prt |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 looked | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | with her mild blue eyes; at it | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
looked up with mild eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 looked | compound:prt |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | with mild eyes | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
stood up and walked slowly to the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 stood | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 walked | cc |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 stood | conj |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | walk | past | to the window result; slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result |
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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