Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…
what did he want the spectacles for, lol?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: want · To what, where: spectacles
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 want | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spectacles | det |
| 6 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 want | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 spectacles | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 9 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 want | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past · do-support | he | the spectacles | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme spectacle=Attribute |
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
reading people's minds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 minds | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 people | case |
| 4 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 reading | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | people's minds | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mind | people | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
peeking in people's hearts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peeking | peek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hearts | case |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 people | case |
| 5 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 peeking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peek | gerund | in people's hearts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in heart=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
looking at everyone's secret hearts and thoughts, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 hearts | case |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 everyone | case |
| 5 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hearts | amod |
| 6 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 looking | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thoughts | cc |
| 8 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hearts | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 looking | punct |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 looking | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | at everyone's secret hearts and thoughts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at heart=Theme |
Option 4
checking people's pockets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 people | case |
| 4 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 checking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | gerund | people's pockets | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/280-pg1597-part7/t13/