Test 13 · ★ · Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her l…
so is the girl gonna find her husband now or what?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be, find · To what, where: husband
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1652 «Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her lost husband, helped by the Sun, the Moon and the Wind» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 find | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 so | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | nsubj |
| 5 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 girl | dep |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 husband | nmod:poss |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 find | advmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 now | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | so property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | the girl | girl's husband | now | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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
the tale ends here, so probably not
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tale | det |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | nsubj |
| 3 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ends | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 probably | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 probably | advmod |
| 7 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 3 ends | advmod |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 probably | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | the tale | here | probably property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
dunno, prob not
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dunno | dunno | INTJ | _ | 3 prob | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 dunno | punct |
| 3 | prob | prob | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 prob | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the book says yes, pretty soon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pretty | punct |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 7 soon | advmod |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 says | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the book | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the story keeps going, so maybe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 maybe | advmod |
| 7 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 3 keeps | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the story | maybe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | the story not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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