Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burn…
Bro, what did the mice keep on wanting to know?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, keep, want, know · To what, where: mice
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1630 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burned, and a new tale begins» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bro | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mice | det |
| 6 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 wanting | mark |
| 9 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 keep | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanting | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bro | the mice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | Bro | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | want | gerund | Bro not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | Bro not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
About the candles and the bacon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 candles | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 candles | det |
| 3 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bacon | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bacon | det |
| 6 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 candles | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
All about the storeroom, the cheese, and the bacon hanging from the rafters
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | ADV | _ | 4 storeroom | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 storeroom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 storeroom | det |
| 4 | storeroom | storeroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cheese | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cheese | det |
| 7 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 storeroom | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bacon | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bacon | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bacon | det |
| 11 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 storeroom | conj |
| 12 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 bacon | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 rafters | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rafters | det |
| 15 | rafters | rafter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hanging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | gerund | the bacon not said here | the rafters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
All about the storeroom and cheese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | ADV | _ | 4 storeroom | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 storeroom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 storeroom | det |
| 4 | storeroom | storeroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cheese | cc |
| 6 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 storeroom | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Everything about the storeroom and the cheese and the tallow candles in the cellar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 storeroom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 storeroom | det |
| 4 | storeroom | storeroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Everything | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cheese | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cheese | det |
| 7 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 storeroom | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 candles | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 candles | det |
| 10 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 candles | compound |
| 11 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Everything | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 cellar | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cellar | det |
| 14 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 candles | 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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