Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman…
the moon people was arguing about us like 'is earth even sick' lol
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moon · What happens: argue, be
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 279 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman flies to the moon in a wink, and his body dies on the street» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arguing | nsubj |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 moon | nmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arguing | aux |
| 5 | arguing | argue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 arguing | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 earth | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 earth | cop |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arguing | obl |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 sick | advmod |
| 13 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 earth | amod |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sick | punct |
| 15 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 arguing | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | past · progressive | the moon people | about us | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about we=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | like earth | 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, they reckoned the moon's too cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckoned | obj |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 moon | case |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 cold | advmod |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moon | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | they | the moon | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent moon=Attribute |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, they reckoned the air's too thick for breathing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckoned | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thick | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thick | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 air | case |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 thick | advmod |
| 9 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 breathing | case |
| 11 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thick | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | they | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yeah, they reckoned the air's too thick for proper creatures to breathe freely
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckoned | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thick | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 air | case |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 thick | advmod |
| 9 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reckoned | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 creatures | case |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 creatures | amod |
| 12 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thick | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 breathe | mark |
| 14 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reckoned | advcl |
| 15 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 14 breathe | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | they | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | breathe | to-infinitive | they not said here | freely property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
nah, they reckoned the Earth's too bright and noisy for anyone to live
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Earth | det |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bright | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Earth | case |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 bright | advmod |
| 9 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reckoned | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 noisy | cc |
| 11 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bright | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 anyone | case |
| 13 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 reckoned | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reckoned | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | they | for anyone | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | they not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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