Test 9 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks…
Mad, what did the fishes tell the fisherman to collect?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fishes · What happens: do, tell, collect · To what, where: fisherman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1802 «Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks become golden fishes, and the fishes become princes» 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 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mad | parataxis |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fishes | det |
| 6 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fisherman | det |
| 9 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 collect | mark |
| 11 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the fishes | the fisherman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fisherman=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | collect | to-infinitive | the fishes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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
Drops off the trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 trees | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trees | det |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drops | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Dew off the leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 leaves | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leaves | det |
| 4 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dew | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Dew from the highest leaves in the whole royal garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 leaves | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leaves | det |
| 4 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 leaves | amod |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dew | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 garden | amod |
| 9 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 garden | amod |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Dew off the leaves of the aspen trees at dawn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 leaves | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leaves | det |
| 4 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dew | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 7 | aspen | aspen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trees | compound |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leaves | nmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 dawn | case |
| 10 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trees | 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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