Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi…
where did the Wind's mum stash him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: stash · To what, where: him
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 stash | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stash | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wind | det |
| 4 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Wind | case |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stash | nsubj |
| 7 | stash | stash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stash | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 stash | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stash | past · do-support | the Wind's mum | him = he | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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
inside the kitchen oven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 4 oven | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 oven | det |
| 3 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 oven | compound |
| 4 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
inside a huge barrel full of cold water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 4 barrel | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 barrel | det |
| 3 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 barrel | amod |
| 4 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 barrel | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
under the staircase
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | under | under | ADP | _ | 3 staircase | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 staircase | det |
| 3 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
in the cellar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 cellar | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cellar | det |
| 3 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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