Test 6 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big…
ngl the elder bro didn't even notice the mountain opening, that's wild
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mountain, that · What happens: ngl, not notice, open, be · To what, where: mountain
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1222 «Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers, part 2: the bear chief's servant lures the hunters into the mountain» 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 | ngl | ngl | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bro | det |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bro | amod |
| 4 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 notice | vocative |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 notice | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 notice | advmod |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 notice | advmod |
| 8 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 ngl | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 notice | obj |
| 11 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 mountain | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wild | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 wild | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wild | cop |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 ngl | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ngl | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not notice | past · do-support | you not said here | the mountain | the elder bro vocative | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | open | gerund | the mountain not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | that | wild 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he was distracted by the noise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 distracted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 distracted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 distracted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distracted | aux:pass |
| 5 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 noise | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 noise | det |
| 8 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distracted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distract | past · passive | the noise | he | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
Option 2
Nah, he was fully aware of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 aware | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 aware | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 aware | cop |
| 5 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 6 aware | advmod |
| 6 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 aware | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | of it; aware, fully property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, he was so focused on the bear he never saw the fork or the cliffs at all
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 focused | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 focused | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 focused | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 focused | aux:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 focused | advmod |
| 6 | focused | focus | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saw | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bear | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bear | det |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 focused | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 saw | advmod |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fork | det |
| 14 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 cliffs | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cliffs | det |
| 17 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fork | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 saw | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | focus | past · passive | he | the bear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | past | he | the fork or the cliffs | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fork=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was so focused on the bear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 focused | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 focused | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 focused | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 focused | aux:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 focused | advmod |
| 6 | focused | focus | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bear | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bear | det |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 focused | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | focus | past · passive | he | the bear | 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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