Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the puddi…
so the purse was like a bubble?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purse · What happens: be
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1964 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the pudding, a cow swallows Tom, a fish and a raven carry him far, and his last journey ends with a spider» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 bubble | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 purse | det |
| 3 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bubble | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bubble | cop |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 bubble | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bubble | det |
| 7 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 bubble | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the purse | like a bubble | tree rules |
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
nah, it was a leather bag, dead weird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 bag | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bag | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bag | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bag | det |
| 6 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bag | compound |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 weird | punct |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weird | advmod |
| 10 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bag | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a leather bag | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, a water-bubble that he kept in his pocket, dead weird
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 bubble | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bubble | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bubble | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bubble | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
| 6 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 kept | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bubble | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pocket | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 12 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | obl | ||
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 weird | punct |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 weird | advmod |
| 15 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bubble | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | a water bubble | his pocket | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Theme in pocket=Location |
Option 3
yeah, like a soap bubble, weird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 bubble | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bubble | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 bubble | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bubble | det |
| 5 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bubble | compound |
| 6 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 weird | punct |
| 8 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bubble | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, a water-bubble, dead weird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 bubble | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bubble | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bubble | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bubble | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
| 6 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bubble | punct |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 weird | advmod |
| 9 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bubble | amod |
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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