Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burn…
Proper skint, was Basmus, wasn't he, fam?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: skint Basmus · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: skint Basmus, fam
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 skint | advmod |
| 2 | skint | skint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Basmus | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 skint | punct |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Basmus | cop |
| 5 | Basmus | Basmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fam | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Basmus | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fam | cop |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 fam | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fam | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fam | punct |
| 11 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 fam | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | skint Basmus | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | skint Basmus | fam | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a poor smith with loads of kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 smith | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 smith | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 smith | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 smith | amod |
| 5 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 loads | case |
| 7 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smith | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kids | case |
| 9 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 loads | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, a poor smith with loads of kids and barely any money to feed them all year
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 smith | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 smith | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 smith | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 smith | amod |
| 5 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 loads | case |
| 7 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smith | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kids | case |
| 9 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 loads | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 money | cc |
| 11 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 13 money | advmod |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 money | det |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smith | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 feed | mark |
| 15 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 money | acl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 feed | obj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 year | det |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | to-infinitive | kids = kid | year | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
Option 3
Yeah, a poor fisher with some kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 fisher | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fisher | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fisher | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fisher | amod |
| 5 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 kids | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 kids | det |
| 8 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fisher | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, a rich merchant with no kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 merchant | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 merchant | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 merchant | amod |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 kids | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 kids | det |
| 8 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 merchant | 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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