Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bu…
lowkey who is the old dude upstairs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: old dude
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 295 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bush grows from a teapot and shows an old couple's golden day» 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dude | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 dude | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dude | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dude | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dude | amod |
| 6 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 6 dude | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 dude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | lowkey | the old dude | upstairs property | 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 · ✓ the right answer
the guy with no wife or kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guy | det |
| 2 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 wife | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 wife | det |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guy | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 kids | cc |
| 7 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wife | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the old man with the pipe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 pipe | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pipe | det |
| 6 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the old dude who was married to the elder tree and never had kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dude | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dude | amod |
| 3 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dude | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 married | cc |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 had | advmod |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the old dude | to the elder tree | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | not have | past | the old dude | kids | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient |
Option 4
the guy who sells the tea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guy | det |
| 2 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sells | nsubj |
| 4 | sells | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 guy | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tea | det |
| 6 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sells | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | the guy | the tea | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=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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