Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier…
Did the Witch just ask for an old tinder-box?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Witch · What happens: do, ask
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1737 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier gets rich from three dogs and a witch's trick» 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Witch | det |
| 3 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 ask | advmod |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 box | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 box | amod |
| 9 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 box | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 tinder | punct |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 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 | ask speech: ask | present | the Witch | for a old tinder box | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, she wanted a shiny ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 6 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ring | amod |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | a shiny ring | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ring=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, she wanted gold, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | gold and innit | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, that was the whole deal, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 deal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 deal | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 deal | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 deal | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deal | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deal | amod |
| 7 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deal | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | the whole deal | mate vocative | tree rules |
Option 4
Dunno, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dunno | Dunno | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bruv | punct |
| 3 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dunno | appos |
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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