Test 2 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's…
Wait, the duck just waddled into the kitchen to chat to a dog? Proper bizarre, innit?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, duck, Proper bizarre · What happens: wait, waddle, chat, innit · To what, where: kitchen
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1663 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's secret and the wicked sister's end» 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
Sentence 1: Wait, the duck just waddled into the kitchen to chat to a dog?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 waddled | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 duck | det |
| 4 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waddled | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 waddled | advmod |
| 6 | waddled | waddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | conj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 kitchen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kitchen | det |
| 9 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waddled | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 chat | mark |
| 11 | chat | chat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 waddled | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 dog | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chat | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | waddle | past | the duck | the kitchen | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Destination | ||||
| 3 | chat speech: other | to-infinitive | the duck not said here | to a dog | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: Proper bizarre, innit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bizarre | amod |
| 2 | bizarre | bizarre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 innit | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bizarre | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | innit | infinitive | Proper bizarre | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yeah, a goose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 goose | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 goose | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 goose | det |
| 4 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, a cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 cat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, her little dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 dog | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dog | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dog | amod |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, the king's cook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 cook | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cook | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cook | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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