Test 6 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…
So where did they sleep, in a proper hotel?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: sleep · To what, where: proper hotel
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1872 «Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget the magic word and spend a night in a haunted ruin» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 sleep | advmod |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 sleep | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sleep | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sleep | nsubj |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hotel | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hotel | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hotel | det |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hotel | amod |
| 10 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sleep | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · do-support | they | a proper hotel | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hotel=Location |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, in an old ruined castle with busted pillars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 castle | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 castle | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 castle | amod |
| 6 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 castle | amod |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 pillars | case |
| 9 | busted | bust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pillars | amod |
| 10 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 castle | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bust | participle | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, in a palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 palace | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 palace | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, on a rooftop in the middle of a dusty town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 rooftop | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rooftop | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 rooftop | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rooftop | det |
| 5 | rooftop | rooftop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rooftop | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 11 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 town | amod |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 middle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, in a bit of old field by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bit | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bit | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 field | case |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 field | amod |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | 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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