Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…
wait, what did he wish for to get free?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, wish, get · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wish | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 wish | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wish | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 wait | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 get | case |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wish | ccomp |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 get | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wish | past · do-support | he | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | free property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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 · ✓ the right answer
head loose, finally
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loose | compound |
| 2 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 loose | punct |
| 4 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 2 loose | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
that his whole head were loose, finally, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 loose | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 head | amod |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loose | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 loose | cop |
| 6 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 loose | punct |
| 8 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 6 loose | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 loose | punct |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 loose | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | his whole head | finally, loose property | tree rules |
Option 3
he wished his head would come off completely and just roll out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wished | ccomp |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 come | compound:prt |
| 8 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 roll | cc |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 roll | advmod |
| 11 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 roll | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | he | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come off | would | his head | completely property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roll out | infinitive | his head not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
neck bent, finally
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bent | nsubj |
| 2 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finally | punct |
| 4 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 2 bent | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | participle | neck | finally property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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