Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfarona…
Lol, what was the nightingale singing about, like, sugar?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nightingale · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: nightingale
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1509 «Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfaronade eats all the food and the Princess vanishes» 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 nightingale | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 nightingale | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nightingale | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nightingale | det |
| 6 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 nightingale | acl |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 singing | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 10 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 6 nightingale | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sugar | punct |
| 12 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 like | vocative |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 nightingale | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the nightingale | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | the nightingale not said here | about property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Sweet tarts and almonds hidden under the old oak tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tarts | amod |
| 2 | tarts | tart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 almonds | cc |
| 4 | almonds | almond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tarts | conj |
| 5 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tarts | acl |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 9 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | Sweet tarts and almonds not said here | the old oak tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Tarts and almonds under a bush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tarts | tart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 almonds | cc |
| 3 | almonds | almond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Tarts | conj |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 bush | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bush | det |
| 6 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tarts | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Honey and cakes by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cakes | cc |
| 3 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Honey | conj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Honey | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Lovely roses in the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 roses | amod |
| 2 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roses | 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.
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