Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45:…
Dude, what did the mom's voice sound like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: do · To what, where: voice sound
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | 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 | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mom | det |
| 6 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 mom | case |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | compound |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 sound | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dude | voice sound | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Eventuality |
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
Like a huge crowd of loud ravens croaking, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 crowd | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crowd | det |
| 3 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 crowd | amod |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ravens | case |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ravens | amod |
| 7 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crowd | nmod |
| 8 | croaking | croak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 ravens | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bro | punct |
| 10 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 croaking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | croak | gerund | loud ravens not said here | bro | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bro=Theme |
Option 2
Like wild rushing water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 water | amod |
| 3 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 water | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Like loud ravens croaking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 ravens | case |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ravens | amod |
| 3 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | croaking | croak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ravens | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | croak | gerund | loud ravens not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Like super loud ravens croaking all at once, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 ravens | case |
| 2 | super | super | ADV | _ | 3 loud | advmod |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ravens | amod |
| 4 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | croaking | croak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 ravens | acl |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 once | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 croaking | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ravens | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | croak | gerund | loud ravens and mate not said here | once property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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