Test 3 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…
Gutted, so how long ago did his dad say he went missing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: gut, do, say, go · To what, where: dad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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 | 10 say | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 did | advmod |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 ago | advmod |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 did | advmod |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Gutted | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | ccomp |
| 13 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 went | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | his dad | ago property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | he | missing property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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
seven years ago, when he was small
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 small | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 small | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 small | cop |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ago | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | small property | tree rules |
Option 2
seven years ago, bruv, at least
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 bruv | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bruv | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 least | case |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 bruv | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
three years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
seven years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 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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