Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror b…
was the grandma telling them proper stories or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandma · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: grandma, proper stories, them · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grandma | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grandma | det |
| 3 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 grandma | acl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 telling | iobj |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stories | amod |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 telling | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stories | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 grandma | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the grandma | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the grandma not said here | proper stories | them = they | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic |
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
yeah, about a fairy princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 princess | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 princess | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 princess | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princess | amod |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nah, just sleeping
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 sleeping | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 sleeping | advmod |
| 4 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, stories for the kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 stories | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 kids | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kids | det |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stories | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nah, it was a boring sermon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 sermon | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sermon | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sermon | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sermon | det |
| 6 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sermon | amod |
| 7 | sermon | sermon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a boring sermon | 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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