Test 14 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: t…

what do you think the sneaky thing eating the hay is?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, sneaky thing · What happens: think, be, eat · To what, where: sneaky thing, hay · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 think	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	ccomp
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 thing	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hay	det
10	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	you		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	is a	present		the sneaky thing	tree rules
3	eat	gerund	the sneaky thing not said here	the hay	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient

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 sneaky goblin, probably, it's a guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 goblin	det
2	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goblin	amod
3	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guess	punct
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	10 guess	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guess	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 guess	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 guess	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 guess	det
10	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goblin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a guess				probably property	tree rules

Option 2

probably a rat or a mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	probably	probably	ADV	_	3 rat	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rat	det
3	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 mouse	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rat	conj

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

Option 3

some kind of bird, maybe a crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bird	case
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crow	punct
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	8 crow	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crow	det
8	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the story doesn't say yet, it's a mystery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mystery	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mystery	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mystery	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mystery	det
11	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	the story				yet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	story	a mystery					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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