Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Lud…
Yo, so the goblins, right? John just yanked a whole oak door off its hinges and squashed them flat, proper mental
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: John · What happens: yank, squash · To what, where: whole oak door, hinges
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1899 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Ludovine from the goblins, sleeps through his chances, and is carried off to the Low Countries.» 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: Yo, so the goblins, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 goblins | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goblins | det |
| 5 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Yo | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 7 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 Yo | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: John just yanked a whole oak door off its hinges and squashed them flat, proper mental
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 yanked | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 yanked | advmod |
| 3 | yanked | yank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 door | amod |
| 6 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | compound |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yanked | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 hinges | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hinges | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 yanked | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 squashed | cc |
| 12 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 yanked | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 squashed | obj |
| 14 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 squashed | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mental | punct |
| 16 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mental | amod |
| 17 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 yanked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yank | past | John | a whole oak door | off door's hinges | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient off hinge=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | squash | participle | John not said here | hinges = hinge | flat property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
The options
Option 1
a big stick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stick | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stick | amod |
| 3 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rock | det |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a heavy oak door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 door | amod |
| 3 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | compound |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a heavy oak table
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 table | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 table | amod |
| 3 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 table | compound |
| 4 | table | table | 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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