Test 2 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess…
Bruv, what did his voice sound like when he was singing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: do, sing · To what, where: voice sound
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1881 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 18: the Enchanter's golden feast, fireworks and chariot ride to the King» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sound | nmod:poss |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sound | compound |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 singing | mark |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 singing | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 singing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 singing | aux |
| 12 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 did | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bruv's voice sound | Bruv vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | Bruv | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a screech-owl's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 owl | det |
| 2 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 owl | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 screech | punct |
| 4 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 owl | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a trumpet's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 trumpet | det |
| 2 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 trumpet | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a thunder's roar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thunder | det |
| 2 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roar | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 thunder | case |
| 4 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | a thunder | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
like a rusty gate on a windy night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 gate | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gate | det |
| 3 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gate | amod |
| 4 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 7 | windy | windy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 night | amod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gate | 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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