Test 3 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…
Gutted, what did she blow to call the guinea pigs?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: gut, blow, call · To what, where: guinea pigs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 blow | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 blow | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blow | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 blow | nsubj |
| 6 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 call | mark |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 blow | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pigs | det |
| 10 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pigs | compound |
| 11 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 call | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | she not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | blow | past · do-support | she | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call | to-infinitive | she not said here | the guinea pigs | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pig=Recipient |
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
A tiny silver whistle she wears round her neck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 whistle | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 whistle | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whistle | compound |
| 4 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wears | nsubj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wears | nsubj |
| 6 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 neck | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 neck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wears | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | a tiny silver whistle | round her neck | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A silver whistle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 whistle | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whistle | amod |
| 3 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A tin whistle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 whistle | det |
| 2 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whistle | compound |
| 3 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A brass trumpet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 trumpet | det |
| 2 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trumpet | compound |
| 3 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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