Test 9 · ★ · pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch…
Where's the Yara story set, mate?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Yara story set · What happens: be
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1215 «pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch, and a new tale begins» 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=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 set | det |
| 4 | Yara | Yara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | compound |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | compound |
| 6 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Yara story set and mate | where property | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Down south, where it's ridiculously hot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 2 south | advmod |
| 2 | south | south | ADV | _ | 8 hot | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hot | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 hot | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hot | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hot | cop |
| 7 | ridiculously | ridiculously | ADV | _ | 8 hot | advmod |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | hot, ridiculously, south property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Somewhere up north in a freezing mountain village with loads of snow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 up | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 north | advmod |
| 3 | north | north | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 6 | freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mountain | compound |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 village | compound |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 north | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 loads | case |
| 10 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 village | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 snow | case |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loads | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Up north, where it's proper freezing cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 2 north | advmod |
| 2 | north | north | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 north | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 freezing | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 freezing | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 freezing | cop |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 freezing | amod |
| 8 | freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 north | conj |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 freezing | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | proper freezing | tree rules |
Option 4
Up north where it's freezing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 2 north | advmod |
| 2 | north | north | ADV | _ | 3 where | advmod |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 freezing | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 freezing | cop |
| 6 | freezing | freezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 where | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | freezing | tree rules |
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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