Test 7 · ★ · pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes s…
Mate, what do the crabs do, I'm dying to know?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crabs, I · What happens: be, do, die, know · To what, where: Mate
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1304 «pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes set fish, feet and folk dancing» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crabs | det |
| 6 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mate | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dying | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 dying | nsubj |
| 10 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dying | aux |
| 11 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 do | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dying | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the crabs | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | die | present · progressive | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Spin round on one claw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spin | spin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Spin | advmod |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 claw | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 claw | nummod |
| 5 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spin | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Scuttle sideways fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scuttle | scuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 3 fast | advmod |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Scuttle | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Hide away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Hide | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Snap at the swimmers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snap | Snap | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 swimmers | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 swimmers | det |
| 4 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Snap | nmod |
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/1304-pg3454-part29/t7/