Test 10 · ★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors,…
Gran in Cornwall: "That cake were proper job, my lover." ("proper job" = really good, "my lover" = a friendly way to say dear.) What is the cake's message written in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cake, message · What happens: be, say, write in · To what, where: proper job, dear, message · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME» 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: Gran in Cornwall: "That cake were proper job, my lover."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Cornwall | case |
| 3 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gran | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 job | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 job | punct |
| 6 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 cake | det |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 job | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 job | cop |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 job | amod |
| 10 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gran | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lover | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lover | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 job | vocative |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lover | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 lover | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | that cake | proper job | my lover vocative | 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.
Sentence 2: ("proper job" = really good, "my lover" = a friendly way to say dear.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 job | punct |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 job | amod |
| 4 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 good | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 job | punct |
| 6 | = | = | SYM | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lover | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lover | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lover | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 good | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lover | punct |
| 14 | = | = | SYM | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lover | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 say | mark |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 way | acl |
| 20 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 say | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | dear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dear=Topic |
Sentence 3: What is the cake's message written in?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cake | det |
| 4 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 message | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 cake | case |
| 6 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 message | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 written | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the cake's message | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | write in | participle | the cake's message not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Currants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Currants | currant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Jam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Chocolate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Icing sugar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Icing | icing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sugar | compound |
| 2 | sugar | sugar | 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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