Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Books / Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a… / t13

Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…

Cousin fox sounds like a bit of a grass, whispering about that man. What did he say he'd take?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cousin fox, fox · What happens: sound, whisper, say, take · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» 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

Sentence 1: Cousin fox sounds like a bit of a grass, whispering about that man.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fox	compound
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounds	nsubj
3	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 bit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounds	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whispering	punct
11	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sounds	advcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 man	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whispering	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	Cousin fox					like a bit of a grass	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	whisper speech: assert	gerund	Cousin fox not said here					about that man	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about man=Topic

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.

Sentence 2: What did he say he'd take?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	fox						tree rules
2	take	would	fox						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

the bow and arrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bow	det
2	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 arrow	cc
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bow	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the knapsack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knapsack	det
2	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the hens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hens	det
2	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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/1236-pg3282-part37/t13/