Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…
Ok but what did the bees make in that old tower?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bees · What happens: do, make · To what, where: old tower
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 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 | 6 bees | det |
| 6 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tower | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 tower | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tower | amod |
| 11 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | the bees | that old tower | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
candles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
candles of wax
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 wax | case |
| 3 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 candles | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
flowers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
wax and honey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 honey | cc |
| 3 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wax | conj |
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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