Test 8 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…
Bro, what did he buy in town, like for real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: buy · To what, where: town
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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 | 6 buy | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 buy | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 buy | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 buy | nsubj |
| 6 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 real | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 real | case |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 real | case |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 buy | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past · do-support | he | town | Bro vocative | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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 live pike and a goat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pike | det |
| 2 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pike | amod |
| 3 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 goat | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 goat | det |
| 6 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pike | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A live pike and a hare, and also a whole sack of grain from the stall
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pike | det |
| 2 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pike | amod |
| 3 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hare | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hare | det |
| 6 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pike | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sack | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sack | cc |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 sack | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sack | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sack | amod |
| 12 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pike | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 grain | case |
| 14 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sack | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 stall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stall | det |
| 17 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pike | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A live pike and a hare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pike | det |
| 2 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pike | amod |
| 3 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hare | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hare | det |
| 6 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pike | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A large live pike and a hare, plus some bread for the trip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pike | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pike | amod |
| 3 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pike | amod |
| 4 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hare | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hare | det |
| 7 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pike | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bread | punct |
| 9 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 11 bread | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 bread | det |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pike | appos |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 trip | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trip | det |
| 14 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bread | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1775-pg641-part26/t8/