Test 1 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

so like, what were the dudes even fishing for down the pool?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: fish

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 what	advmod
2	like	like	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 fishing	obj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fishing	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dudes	det
7	dudes	dude	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 were	nsubj
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 fishing	advmod
9	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 pool	case
11	down	down	ADP	_	13 pool	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pool	det
13	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fishing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 fishing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fish	past · progressive						for the pool	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Location for pool=Theme

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

crabs and worms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 worms	cc
3	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 crabs	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

eels and stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stuff	cc
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eels	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a big pile of mud and river weed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pile	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pile	amod
3	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 mud	case
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pile	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 weed	cc
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weed	compound
8	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mud	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

huge catfish and the odd turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 catfish	amod
2	catfish	catfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 turtle	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 turtle	det
5	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turtle	amod
6	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catfish	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1213-pg3282-part14/t1/