Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ri…
yo, what did the blind mouse find on the beach?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: blind mouse find, beach
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1416 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ring, then lose it at sea» 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 find | det |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 find | amod |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | compound |
| 8 | find | find | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 beach | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beach | det |
| 11 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the blind mouse find | the beach | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent find=Eventuality |
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
a broken oar near the boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 oar | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 oar | amod |
| 3 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 boat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 oar | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a sack of nuts and seeds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sack | det |
| 2 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 nuts | case |
| 4 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sack | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 seeds | cc |
| 6 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nuts | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nothing but a pile of seaweed and an old broken golden sail from the captain
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 pile | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pile | det |
| 4 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nothing | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 seaweed | case |
| 6 | seaweed | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pile | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sail | cc |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sail | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sail | amod |
| 10 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sail | amod |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sail | amod |
| 12 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nothing | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 captain | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 captain | det |
| 15 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sail | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a dead fish with the ring inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ring | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fish | nmod |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 fish | advmod |
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.
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