Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus t…
What did Little Klaus claim the sea-maiden gave him, bro?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little, sea maiden · What happens: do, claim, give · To what, where: bro, him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1730 «Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus tries to drown Little Klaus and drowns the old driver by mistake, then a prince finds a gold ring in a barrel» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 claim | nsubj |
| 4 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Little | flat |
| 5 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maiden | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 claim | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bro | punct |
| 13 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | present | Little | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the sea maiden | bro | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bro=Theme |
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
Silver coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coins | compound |
| 2 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A whole herd of sea-cattle and a golden bell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 herd | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 herd | amod |
| 3 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cattle | case |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cattle | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 sea | punct |
| 7 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 herd | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bell | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bell | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bell | amod |
| 11 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cattle | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Sea-cattle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cattle | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sea | punct |
| 3 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sea-cattle from the bottom of the ocean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cattle | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sea | punct |
| 3 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 bottom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottom | det |
| 6 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cattle | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ocean | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ocean | det |
| 9 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bottom | 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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