Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born…
Mate, what did the girl say summer can't beat?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, summer · What happens: say, not beat · To what, where: Mate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1619 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born and learns about the sun, the moon and the weather» 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 say | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 say | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mate | conj |
| 8 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beat | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 beat | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 beat | advmod |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the girl | Mate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not beat | can | summer | 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
A more beautiful sight than the winter frost has ever made on glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sight | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 beautiful | advmod |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sight | amod |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 frost | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 frost | det |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frost | compound |
| 8 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sight | nmod |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 made | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 glass | case |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | a beautiful sight than the winter frost | glass | ever | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 2
Warm days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 days | amod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A more beautiful sight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sight | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 beautiful | advmod |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sight | amod |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A brighter winter sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sky | det |
| 2 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 sky | amod |
| 3 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sky | compound |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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