Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Thumbelina, part 65: Thumbelina finds a…

bro what did Thumbelina use as a lantern in the tunnel

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Thumbelina · What happens: use · To what, where: bro, tunnel

This is test 6 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 use	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 use	aux
4	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bro	acl:relcl
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 lantern	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lantern	det
8	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 tunnel	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tunnel	det
11	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	Thumbelina	bro		the tunnel		as a lantern	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Duration as lantern=Attribute

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 glowworm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 glowworm	det
2	glowworm	glowworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a glowing old tree root

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 root	det
2	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 root	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 root	amod
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 root	compound
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

a bit of old bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bark	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bark	amod
5	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a piece of rotten wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wood	amod
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	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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