Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Lud…
Proper question, who was the girl in the fishing hut, the one everyone called Seagull?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Proper question · What happens: be, call · To what, where: girl, fishing hut · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 question | amod |
| 2 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 girl | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 question | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 10 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hut | compound |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 everyone | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 everyone | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 everyone | compound |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 question | conj |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 everyone | acl |
| 17 | Seagull | Seagull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 question | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Proper question | the girl | the fishing hut | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
a young girl mending a net
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | mending | mend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 girl | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 net | det |
| 6 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mending | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mend | gerund | a young girl not said here | a net | tree rules |
Option 2
an old woman sewing sails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | sewing | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 woman | acl |
| 5 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sewing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | gerund | a old woman not said here | sails | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Product |
Option 3
a boy fixing an old boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | fixing | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 boy | acl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boat | amod |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fixing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | gerund | a boy not said here | a old boat | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
an old fisherman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fisherman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fisherman | amod |
| 3 | fisherman | fisherman | 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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