Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…
bro, who even was the dog with the big eyes?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: dog
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dog | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 dog | nsubj |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 dog | advmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dog | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bro | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eyes | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dog | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 bro | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bro and the dog | the dog | with the big eyes | tree rules |
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 one with saucer eyes from the cellar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | compound |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cellar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cellar | det |
| 8 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the one from the hollow tree with eyes like saucers and a bushy tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tree | nmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 saucers | case |
| 10 | saucers | saucer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tail | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tail | det |
| 13 | bushy | bushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tail | amod |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the one the soldier met at the crossroads with eyes like saucers and a silver collar
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 met | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 crossroads | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crossroads | det |
| 8 | crossroads | crossroad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 met | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crossroads | nmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 saucers | case |
| 12 | saucers | saucer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eyes | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 collar | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 collar | det |
| 15 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 collar | amod |
| 16 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crossroads | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the one | the crossroads with eyes like saucers and a silver collar | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the one from the hollow tree, eyes like saucers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 eyes | punct |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 saucers | case |
| 10 | saucers | saucer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eyes | 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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