Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror b…
how did the sword guy stay dry in the rain, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sword guy · What happens: stay · To what, where: rain
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1624 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror breaks and Kay gets a splinter» 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 stay | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 guy | det |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guy | compound |
| 5 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stay | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 rain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rain | det |
| 10 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bruv | punct |
| 12 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rain | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past · do-support | the sword guy | the rain and bruv | dry property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=Location |
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
he used an umbrella
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 umbrella | det |
| 4 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 used | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | he | a umbrella | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Patient |
Option 2
under a tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | under | under | ADP | _ | 3 tree | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
swinging the sword super fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swinging | swing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 swinging | obj |
| 4 | super | super | ADV | _ | 1 swinging | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 swinging | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | gerund | the sword | fast, super property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
Option 4
running into the nearby pub
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 pub | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pub | det |
| 4 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pub | amod |
| 5 | pub | pub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 running | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | into the nearby pub result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pub=Result |
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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