Test 10 · ★ · The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, pa…
Was the tree actually on the top of the hill?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: tree
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1200 «The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, part 1: a prince chases a deer, gets lost in the desert and meets a barefoot stranger who is a lost king» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tree | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 top | csubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 top | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hill | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hill | det |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 top | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 top | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the tree | tree rules |
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
Yeah, up top with a big spring underneath and dead camels all round
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 top | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 top | punct |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 top | case |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 spring | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spring | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spring | amod |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 top | nmod |
| 9 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 8 spring | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 camels | cc |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 camels | amod |
| 12 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spring | conj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 round | advmod |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 top | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, on a hill with a shady path
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hill | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hill | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hill | det |
| 5 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 path | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 path | det |
| 8 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 path | amod |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hill | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, it was down at the bottom, near the spring, not up top
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 bottom | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bottom | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bottom | cop |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 bottom | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 bottom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottom | det |
| 8 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spring | punct |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 spring | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spring | det |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bottom | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 top | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 top | advmod |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bottom | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | the bottom and top | down property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, up top with a spring underneath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 top | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 top | punct |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 top | case |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 spring | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spring | det |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 top | nmod |
| 8 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 4 top | advmod |
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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