Test 1 · ★ · Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flo…
oi, what did the witch flog the lady for a shilling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oi · What happens: flog · To what, where: lady
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1740 «Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flower and a toad tries to steal her» 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 | oi | oi | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 flog | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flog | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 flog | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flog | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flog | nsubj |
| 7 | flog | flog | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flog | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 shilling | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shilling | det |
| 12 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lady | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 flog | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flog | past · do-support | oi | the lady | for a shilling | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient lady=Result |
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
A cabbage leaf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 leaf | det |
| 2 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaf | compound |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A barley-corn from the market stall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 corn | det |
| 2 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 corn | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 barley | punct |
| 4 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 stall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stall | det |
| 7 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stall | compound |
| 8 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 corn | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A bag of golden barley-corn grains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bag | det |
| 2 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 grains | case |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grains | amod |
| 5 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 corn | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 barley | punct |
| 7 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grains | compound |
| 8 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bag | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A barley-corn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 corn | det |
| 2 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 corn | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 barley | punct |
| 4 | corn | corn | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1740-pg640-part64/t1/