Test 8 · ★ · pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes…
where'd she find that tiny box, like, under a bed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: find
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1151 «pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes in the sieve, cats weave, black casket» 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 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 find | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | ADP | _ | 7 box | case |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 box | amod |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bed | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | would | she | that tiny box; like a bed | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
in a corner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 corner | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 corner | det |
| 3 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
beneath a pile of old sacks by the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 3 pile | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pile | det |
| 3 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sacks | case |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sacks | amod |
| 6 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pile | nmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sacks | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
under a bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | under | under | ADP | _ | 3 bed | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bed | det |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
hidden in a dusty corner of the loft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 corner | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 corner | det |
| 4 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 corner | amod |
| 5 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 hidden | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 loft | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 loft | det |
| 8 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 corner | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | a dusty corner of the loft | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1151-pg3027-part17/t8/