Test 7 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost agai…
Bruv, what's the deal with that light in the forest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: deal
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1468 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost again, the children reach the ogre's house» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 deal | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 deal | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 deal | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 light | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 light | det |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deal | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 deal | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the deal | with that light in the forest; Bruv vocative | 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 · ✓ the right answer
It was a candle in a house, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 candle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 candle | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 candle | det |
| 4 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 candle | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 candle | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a candle and innit | a house | tree rules |
Option 2
A torch in a tent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 torch | det |
| 2 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tent | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tent | det |
| 5 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 torch | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
It was a lamp in a shack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lamp | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lamp | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lamp | det |
| 4 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 shack | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shack | det |
| 7 | shack | shack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lamp | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a lamp | a shack | tree rules |
Option 4
It was a candle burning in a house by the trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 candle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 candle | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 candle | det |
| 4 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 candle | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burning | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 trees | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trees | det |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 burning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a candle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | a candle not said here | a house | by the trees | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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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