Test 2 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes…
Wait, so Jem slept on a church step? Like, all night?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Jem · What happens: wait, sleep
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1791 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes the duke's cook and meets a talking goose» 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
Sentence 1: Wait, so Jem slept on a church step?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 slept | advmod |
| 4 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 slept | nsubj |
| 5 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 step | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 step | det |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 step | compound |
| 9 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slept | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | 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 | sleep | past | Jem | on a church step | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: Like, all night?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 night | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, totally skint and starving
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 skint | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 skint | punct |
| 3 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 4 skint | advmod |
| 4 | skint | skint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 starving | cc |
| 6 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 skint | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | gerund | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he went to a mate's place
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mate | det |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 mate | case |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | a mate's place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Nah, he had a bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bed | det |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | he | a bed | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
Option 4
Nope, found a barn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 3 found | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 barn | det |
| 5 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a barn | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barn=Topic |
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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