Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Thumbelina, part 65: Thumbelina finds a…
wait Thumbelina was an inch tall?? that's so tiny
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Thumbelina, that · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: inch
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1741 «Andersen's Tales, Thumbelina, part 65: Thumbelina finds a frozen swallow and nurses him back to life» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | Thumbelina | Thumbelina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 inch | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 inch | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 inch | det |
| 5 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| 6 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 inch | amod |
| 7 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 11 tiny | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 tiny | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tiny | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 tiny | advmod |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 wait | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Thumbelina | a inch | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | tiny property | 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 right answer
yep, only an inch high
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 6 high | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 inch | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 inch | det |
| 5 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 high | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nah, she was two inches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 inches | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 inches | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inches | cop |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 inches | nummod |
| 6 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | two inches | tree rules |
Option 3
yep, tiny
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 3 tiny | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yep, only an inch high and she lived in a flower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 6 high | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 inch | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 inch | det |
| 5 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 high | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lived | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 high | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 flower | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flower | det |
| 12 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | she | a flower | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flower=Location |
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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