Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…
Bro, what's a hackney-coach anyway, like a taxi?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: hackney coach
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 coach | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 coach | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 coach | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coach | det |
| 6 | hackney | hackney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coach | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hackney | punct |
| 8 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | conj |
| 9 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 8 coach | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taxi | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 taxi | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 taxi | det |
| 13 | taxi | taxi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bro and a hackney coach and a taxi | a hackney coach | anyway property | 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
Yeah, a horse-drawn cart for hire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 cart | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cart | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cart | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawn | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 horse | punct |
| 6 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cart | amod |
| 7 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 hire | case |
| 9 | hire | hire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cart | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a hired carriage off the street
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 carriage | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carriage | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 carriage | det |
| 4 | hired | hire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 carriage | amod |
| 5 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 street | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 street | det |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carriage | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yeah, a carriage for rent, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 carriage | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carriage | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 carriage | det |
| 4 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 rent | case |
| 6 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carriage | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carriage | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, a taxi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 taxi | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 taxi | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 taxi | det |
| 4 | taxi | taxi | 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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