Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…
Lol, what did the Councillor think the plague of 1484 was?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Councillor · What happens: be, think · To what, where: plague
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Councillor | det |
| 6 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 plague | det |
| 9 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 1484 | case |
| 11 | 1484 | 1484 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 plague | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · do-support | the Councillor | the plague of 1484 | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot plague=Theme |
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
Typhus, like the stuff on the telly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Typhus | Typhus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuff | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 stuff | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stuff | det |
| 5 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Typhus | appos |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 telly | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 telly | det |
| 8 | telly | telly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuff | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Plague, I think
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Plague | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | Plague vocative | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cholera, like the fuss on the news
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cholera | cholera | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fuss | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 fuss | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fuss | det |
| 5 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cholera | appos |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 news | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fuss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Smallpox, the thing from the papers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smallpox | smallpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Smallpox | appos |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 papers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 papers | det |
| 7 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thing | nmod |
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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