Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flo…
who swooped in and nabbed her, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: swoop, nab · To what, where: her
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 swooped | nsubj |
| 2 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 swooped | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nabbed | cc |
| 5 | nabbed | nab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swooped | conj |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nabbed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bruv | punct |
| 8 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nabbed | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 swooped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoop | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | nab | past | her = she | bruv obl | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
A cockchafer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cockchafer | det |
| 2 | cockchafer | cockchafer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A dragonfly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dragonfly | det |
| 2 | dragonfly | dragonfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A large brown cockchafer with long antennae
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cockchafer | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cockchafer | amod |
| 3 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cockchafer | amod |
| 4 | cockchafer | cockchafer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 antennae | case |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 antennae | amod |
| 7 | antennae | antennae | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cockchafer | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A great cockchafer flying from the tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cockchafer | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cockchafer | amod |
| 3 | cockchafer | cockchafer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 cockchafer | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | a great cockchafer not said here | the tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory |
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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