Test 2 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a…
Wait, the shabby girl wanted a hare for what, like?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, shabby girl · What happens: wait, want · To what, where: hare
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1786 «Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a hundred hares and collects three strange payments» 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wanted | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hare | det |
| 8 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wanted | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 wanted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | 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 | want | past | the shabby girl | a hare | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme what=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
Dinner for the posh visitors staying at her house this weekend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 visitors | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 visitors | det |
| 4 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 visitors | amod |
| 5 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dinner | nmod |
| 6 | staying | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 visitors | acl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 staying | obl |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 weekend | det |
| 11 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 staying | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | gerund | the posh visitors not said here | her house | weekend | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A dinner for relations
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dinner | det |
| 2 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 relations | case |
| 4 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dinner | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Dinner for posh visitors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 visitors | case |
| 3 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 visitors | amod |
| 4 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dinner | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A big dinner party for all the posh visitors in the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 party | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 party | amod |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 party | compound |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 visitors | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 visitors | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 visitors | det |
| 8 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 visitors | amod |
| 9 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 party | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visitors | 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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