Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…
no cap, did the canary sing about the Canary Isles?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do · To what, where: canary sing
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cap | punct |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sing | det |
| 6 | canary | canary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sing | amod |
| 7 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 Isles | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Isles | det |
| 10 | Canary | Canary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Isles | compound |
| 11 | Isles | Isle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 sing | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | no cap | the canary sing | about the Canary Isles | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality |
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
yes, the palms and almond-trees of the south sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 palms | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 palms | det |
| 4 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 trees | cc |
| 6 | almond | almond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trees | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 almond | punct |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 palms | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 11 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sea | amod |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trees | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yes, the palms and almond-trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 palms | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 palms | det |
| 4 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 trees | cc |
| 6 | almond | almond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trees | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 almond | punct |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 palms | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yes, the snow and cold hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 snow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 snow | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snow | det |
| 4 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hills | cc |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hills | amod |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 snow | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yes, all the palms and the almond-trees and the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 palms | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 palms | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palms | det |
| 5 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 trees | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 8 | almond | almond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trees | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 almond | punct |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 palms | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sea | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 palms | conj |
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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