Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune: the watchman…
a danish mile is like 4 and a bit english miles, innit
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: danish mile, bit · What happens: be, mile
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mile | det |
| 2 | danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mile | amod |
| 3 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 4 | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 4 | cop |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 4 | case |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 miles | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bit | det |
| 9 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 miles | nsubj |
| 10 | english | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 miles | amod |
| 11 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 4 | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 13 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 4 | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a danish mile | like 4 and english miles and innit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mile | a bit | 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's more like 9 and a half English miles, a proper long walk
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 9 | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 9 | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 9 | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 9 | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 9 | case |
| 7 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 half | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 half | det |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 9 | conj |
| 11 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 miles | amod |
| 12 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 half | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walk | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 walk | det |
| 15 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 walk | amod |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 walk | amod |
| 17 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 half | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | like 9 and a half and English miles and a proper long walk | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, nearly 5 and a half
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 5 | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 5 | punct |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 5 | advmod |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 half | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 half | det |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 5 | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, nearly 4 and three quarters English miles, roughly the walk to town
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 4 | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 4 | punct |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 4 | advmod |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 quarters | cc |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 quarters | nummod |
| 7 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 4 | conj |
| 8 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 miles | amod |
| 9 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 quarters | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walk | punct |
| 11 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 13 walk | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walk | det |
| 13 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quarters | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walk | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, nearly 4 and three quarters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 4 | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 4 | punct |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 4 | advmod |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 quarters | cc |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 quarters | nummod |
| 7 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 4 | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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