Test 1 · ★ · Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shel…
Yo, so what did the shuttle actually do, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: shuttle · What happens: do · To what, where: shuttle
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1926 «Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shelters with a grumpy old man, a stag carries him underground, and he frees a maiden from a glass coffin» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 5 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shuttle | det |
| 7 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shuttle | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bruv | punct |
| 11 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shuttle | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the shuttle and bruv | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shuttle=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the shuttle and bruv not said here | actually property | vn act-114-1 «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
made a rug
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rug | det |
| 3 | rug | rug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 made | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | a rug | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rug=Product |
Option 2
wove a rug all alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rug | det |
| 3 | rug | rug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wove | obj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 alone | advmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 1 wove | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | past | a rug | alone property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rug=Product |
Option 3
wove a carpet by itself, all night long, without any help at all
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 carpet | det |
| 3 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wove | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 itself | case |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 wove | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 night | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wove | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 night | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 help | det |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wove | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 help | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | past | a carpet | night | by carpet; without any help at all | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpet=Product |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
wove a carpet by itself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 carpet | det |
| 3 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wove | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 itself | case |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 wove | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | past | a carpet | by carpet | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpet=Product |
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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